`What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter `Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose YOUR temper!'   [перевод...]

`Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly. `You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!'   [перевод...]

`I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular. `She'd soon fetch it back!'   [перевод...]

`And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?' said the Lory.   [перевод...]

Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: `Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for catching mice you can't think! And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!'   [перевод...]