Alice in Wonderland (54)

Alice in Wonderland (54)

" I could tell you my adventuresーbeginning from this morning, " said Alice a little timidly.

"But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. "

" Explain all that, " said the Mock Turtle.

" No no ! The adventures first. Explain takes such a dreadful time, " said the Gryphon.

So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first saw the White Rabbit.

The two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their eyes  and mouths so very wide.

Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part about repeating
" You are old, Father William, " to the Caterpillars.

" It's all about as curious as it can be, " said the Mock Turtle.

" Stand up and repeat ' Tis the voice of the sluggard ' " said the Gryphon.

She got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was full of the Lobster Quadrille, so her words came very queer indeedー

" Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare,
" You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair,
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose,
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes. "

" That's different from what I used to say whenI was a child, " said the Gryphon.

" Well, I never heard it before, " said the Mock Turtle.

" Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille ? Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song ? "

" Oh, a song please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind, " Aice replied.

The Gryphon said to Mock Turtle, " Sing her  'Turtle soup ' will you, old fellow. "

The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing thisー 

 Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen(深皿) !
Who for such dainties(ご馳走) would not stoop ?
（そのようなご馳走を前にしてだれがかがまずにいられようか）
Soup of the evning, beautiful Soup !
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup !
    Beauーootiful Sooーoop !
    Beauーootiful Sooーoop !
Sooーoop of the eーeーevning,
Beautiful, beautiful soup !


 Beautiful Soup ! Who cares for fish,
Game, or any other dish ?
Who would not give all else two pennyworth only of beautiful soup ?
Pennyworth only of beautiful soup
    Beauーootiful Sooーoop !
    Beauーootiful Sooーoop !
Sooーoop of the eーeーevning,
Beautiful, beautiーFUL SOUP  !


" Chorus again ! " cried the Gryphon.

Just then, the cry of " The trial's beginning ! " was heard in the distance.

" Come on, " cried the Gryphon, and taking Alice by the hand, it hurried off, without for the end of the song.

" What trial is it ? " Alice asked as she ran together.

But the Gryphon only answered, " Come on ! " and ran the faster. 

The melancholy words carried on the breeze followed themー
Sooーoop of the eーeーevning,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup !

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次回、新章「Who stole the tarts」に入ります。 Aliceの冒険も、ラスト２章です。