Alice in Wonderland / A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass"

by Alice Gerstenberg; Lewis Carroll

[Checks herself hastily.]

Mock Turtle

I don’t know where Din may be, but if you’ve seen them so often, of course you know what they’re like.

Alice

I believe so, they have their tails in their mouths—and they’re all over crumbs.

Mock Turtle

You’re wrong about the crumbs, crumbs would all wash off in the sea. But they have their tails in their mouths; and the reason is—

[Mock Turtle yawns and shuts his eyes.]

Tell her about the reason and all that.

Gryphon