So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes  full of tears, but said nothing.
'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to know your  history, she do.'
'I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: 'sit  down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've finished.'
So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to  herself, 'I don't see how he can EVEN finish, if he doesn't begin.' But  she waited patiently.
'Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, 'I was a real  Turtle.'
These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an  occasional exclamation of 'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and the constant  heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up and  saying, 'Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,' but she could  not help thinking there MUST be more to come, so she sat still and said  nothing.
'When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly,  though still sobbing a little now and then, 'we went to school in the  sea. The master was an old Turtle—we used to call him Tortoise—'
 
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