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"I've been to a day-school, too," said Alice; "you needn't be so

proud as all that."

"With extras?" asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously.

"Yes," said Alice, "we learned French and music."

"And washing?" said the Mock Turtle.

"Certainly not!" said Alice indignantly.

"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?"