ALICE IN ney,
WONDERLAND
should say, 'With what por-
I
poise ?'"
"Don't you mean
purpose'?" said
Alice.
"I mean what
I say," the MockTurtle replied, in an offended tone. And the Gryphon added, "Come, let's-
hear some of your adventures." "I could tell you my adventures beginning from this morning," said
—
Alice,
a
little
timidly; "but
it's
\
no
use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
"Explain
all that," said the
Mock-
Turtle.
"No, no! The adventures first," Gryphon, in an impatient tone. "Explanations take such a said the
dreadful time."
So Alice began
telling
ventures from the time
saw tle
the White Rabbit.
nerVous about
it
them her ad-
when she first She was a lit-
just at
two creatures got so close 152
WW
first,
the
to her, one
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