Chapter 10
Lobster Quadrille, and off to the trial
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1 The Gryphon thumps the sobbing Mock Turtle on the back while Alice politely waits
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2 On the rock ledge, Alice stops herself mid-word and covers her lips with her fingertips
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3 The Gryphon's talon points across a stretch of wet shingle dotted with glassy jelly-fish.
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4 The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle talk over each other describing the Lobster Quadrille
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5 The Gryphon can't wait for the Mock Turtle to finish describing the Lobster Quadrille.
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6 In the Lobster Quadrille, the Mock Turtle somersaults on the sand as the Gryphon bounces
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7 The wild Lobster Quadrille stops all at once.
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8 Alice, between the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle, shyly calls it a very pretty dance
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9 With a lordly wave of his claw, the Gryphon hands the song to the Mock Turtle.
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10 From above, the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle circle Alice on the sand, beating time
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11 In the Lobster Quadrille, the Gryphon's heavy claw lands on Alice's polished shoe
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12 Eyes half closed and tearful, the Mock Turtle sings the whiting's song
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13 The Mock Turtle's song pauses on the empty shore.
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14 The Mock Turtle sings sadly as he and the Gryphon circle a polite, puzzled Alice
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15 The Lobster Quadrille is over.
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16 On the rock ledge, Alice nearly admits she has eaten whiting at dinner
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17 The drowsy Mock Turtle yawns, shuts his eyes and waves the explanation to the Gryphon
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18 The Gryphon raises a talon like a pointer and lets his whiting pun sink in
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19 Alice looks down at her polished black shoes on the rock ledge, puzzled by the Gryphon's question.
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20 The Gryphon turns his beak away and explains that sea-shoes are made of soles and eels
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21 Hand still raised, Alice hears the Mock Turtle: no wise fish goes without a porpoise
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22 The tearful Mock Turtle makes his porpoise pun, and Alice politely corrects him
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23 Stung by the correction, the Mock Turtle turns half away in offended dignity
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24 Alice timidly tells the Gryphon and Mock Turtle she was a different person yesterday
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25 Alice sits on the rock ledge by the sea and tells her adventures.
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26 The Mock Turtle turns to the Gryphon as if the Gryphon were Alice's schoolmaster.
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27 Ordered to recite, Alice stands on the sand before the rock ledge like a schoolgirl
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28 Alice earnestly recites her lesson, but the poem comes out as nonsense about a Lobster
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29 Alice sits hunched on a low grey rock ledge by a wide, calm sea, with her face hidden in her hands.
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30 The Mock Turtle presses a flapper to his nose, asking how one turns out toes with it
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31 On the sand by the rock ledge, Alice's polished black shoes stand in first position
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32 Chin up, Alice begins the next verse on the rock ledge, sure it will come out wrong
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33 The Mock Turtle throws up his flappers and the Gryphon raises a claw to stop the recital
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34 On the seashore ledge, Alice eagerly asks the Mock Turtle for a song.
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35 The Mock Turtle's tearful eye fills the frame as he sobs Beautiful Soup to Alice
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36 The Mock Turtle throws back his head and bellows the last mournful note of "Beautiful Soup."
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37 A distant cry cuts the "Beautiful Soup" song short.
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38 The Gryphon grabs Alice's hand and rushes her off to the trial mid-song
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39 Alice, pulled along by the hand, pants out her question as they race away from the shore.
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40 Alice and the Gryphon run hand in hand across the wide open ground toward the trial.
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41 Alone on the rock ledge, the Mock Turtle keeps singing Beautiful Soup to the grey sea
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