`Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock

Turtle in a tone of great relief. `Now at OURS they had at the

end of the bill, "French, music, AND WASHING--extra."'

`You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; `living at the

bottom of the sea.'

`I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. `I

only took the regular course.'

`What was that?' inquired Alice.

`Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock

Turtle replied; `and then the different branches of Arithmetic--

Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'

`I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say. `What is it?'

The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. `What! Never

heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. `You know what to beautify is,

I suppose?'

`Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: `it means--to--make--anything--

prettier.'

`Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, `if you don't know what to

uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.'

Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about

it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said `What else had you

to learn?'

`Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting

off the subjects on his flappers, `--Mystery, ancient and modern,

with Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old

conger-eel, that used to come once a week: HE taught us

Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'

`What was THAT like?' said Alice.

`Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: `I'm

too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'

`Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: `I went to the Classics