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The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen

till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. "What fun!" said the

Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.

"What is the fun?" said Alice.

"Why, she," said the Gryphon. "It's all her fancy, that: they

never executes nobody, you know. Come on!"

"Everybody says 'come on!' here," thought Alice, as she went

slowly after it: "I never was so ordered about in all my life,

never!"

They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the

distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and,

as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart

would break. She pitied him deeply. "What is his sorrow?" she

asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the

same words as before, "It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no

sorrow, you know. Come on!"

So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large

eyes full of tears, but said nothing.