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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 master,

though. He was an old crab, he was."