Quadrille?' the Gryphon went on.

I headed north to the Phoenix Islands.

And the Gryphon added 'Come, let's hear some of YOUR adventures.'

' change lobsters, and retire in same order,' continued the Gryphon.

'Oh, YOU sing,' said the Gryphon. 'I've forgotten the words.'

'IT DOES THE BOOTS AND SHOES.' the Gryphon replied very solemnly.

'Why, what are YOUR shoes done with?' said the Gryphon.

Gryphon went on in a deep voice, 'are done with a whiting.

At last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, 'Drive on, old fellow!

A bird, phoenix like, emerges from the ashes of this barren coast

'What IS the fun?' said Alice. 'Why, SHE,' said the Gryphon.

'Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again.

The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise.

'The reason is,' said the Gryphon, 'that they WOULD go with the lobsters to the dance.

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

(IF you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.)

The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes then it watched the Queen till she was out of sight then it chuckled.

'What fun!' said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.

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

And the Gryphon never learnt it.' 'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon

'Why,' said the Gryphon, 'you first form into a line along the sea shore '

'I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the Gryphon.

'It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the Gryphon.

Alice whispered to the Gryphon.

We come through ever fire a little stronger and a little better.

And that same year, 10 years ago, I headed north to the Phoenix Islands.

The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'

'Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently 'it begins I passed by his garden. '

They were not born from sea foam, like Venus, but they have risen from the ashes like a Phoenix.

They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun.

'Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.'

'This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, 'she wants for to know your history, she do.'

Gryphon and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

He looked at the Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.

'Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon and Alice was only too glad to do so.

The first obstacle to a phoenix miracle is that governments remain in austerity mode.

It will not die any time soon in the Israeli aviary both doves and hawks are capable phoenixes.

'Same as if he had a bone in his throat,' said the Gryphon and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back.

I must go back and see after some executions I have ordered' and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon.

'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.

'The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air. ' as far out to sea as you can ' 'Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon.

'They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in reply, 'for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.'

'Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather impatiently 'any shrimp could have told you that.'

These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of 'Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock

Ankaa is similar to many of the visible stars of the night sky, being an orange giant of relatively average stellar size.