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	CHAPTER NINE: My Storyeeeeeeee
	This is the chapter I come in! Yeah! The Duchess was in a very pleasant mood this time around, and she tucked her arm into Alice's and they walked off together. The Duchess was very ugly, and just the right height to rest her chin on Alice's shoulder, a very sharp chin, but Alice tried to bear it as well as she could. They walked and talked about a lot of things, and Alice found the Duchess liked to find morals in things. In the middle of their pleasant conversation, the Duchess' chin started to tremble, and the Queen was in front of them, giving the Duchess little to no choice on where to be, and that was off. The Duchess zoomed away. Alice followed the Queen back to the croquet ground.

	The other players were sitting down under trees, glad for a rest, but once they saw the Queen, they got up and started playing again. Play went on as usual, and the Queen soon resumed shouting off with his/her head, and soon all the players except the Queen, Alice and the King were to be beheaded, and all the arches had to stop being arches to be soldiers instead and to take the players away. The Queen stopped shouting, quite out of breath, and asked Alice, "Have you seen the Mock Turtle (me!!!) yet?" Alice said no, she didn't even know what a Mock Turtle was, and the Queen told her. Alice said she had never seen one or heard of one, so the Queen took Alice away to a beach with a Gryphon lying in the sun, and told the Gryphon to take Alice to the Mock Turtle for his story. She then walked off, leaving Alice and the Gryphon alone on the beach.
	They weren't far away from where they had started when they saw me, sitting on a rock, and as they got closer, Alice could hear me sighing, as if his heart would break, so she pitied me. "What is his sorrow?" she asked the Gryphon, and he said I don't have any sorrow, it's all my fancy. The Gryphon said to me, "This here young lady, she wants for to know your history, she do". They sat down, and nobody spoke for a few minutes. "Once, I was a real turtle", I said. Another long silence, with the constant sobbing from me. The rest of my story follows, with the interruptions from Alice and the Gryphon cut out: "When we were little, we went to school in the sea. The master was an old turtle - we used to call him Tortoise (because he taught us). Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe it. We had the best of education - in fact, we went to school every day - Now at ours they had at the end of the bill, French, music and washing - extra. I couldn't afford to learn it sigh. I only took the regular course. Reeling and Writhing to begin with, and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Well, there was Mystery - Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seography: 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." At this point the Gryphon explained some of his lessons with a teacher, and I said that my lessons were ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on because they are called lessons, they lessen from day to day. Alice asked if the eleventh day was a holiday, which I said yes to, and what happened on the twelfth day, and thankfully, the Gryphon changed the subject to games, which I happily moved on to.

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