Alice
What was that like?
Mock Turtle
Well, I can’t show it you, myself. I’m too stiff. And the Gryphon never learned it.
Gryphon
Hadn’t time; I went to the Classical master, though. He was an old crab, he was.
Mock Turtle
I never went to him; he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.
Gryphon
So he did, so he did.