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

And she walked off, leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon.

Alice and the Gryphon had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break.

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

"What is it?" The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise.

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

"That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked; "because they lessen from day to day.

"That's enough about lessons," the Gryphon interrupted, in a very decided tone.

"Let's try the first figure," said the Mock Turtle to the Gryphon.

Which shall sing?" "Oh, you sing!" said the Gryphon.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?" "Now, come, let's hear some of your adventures," said the Gryphon to Alice, after the dance.

"No, no; the adventure first!" said the Gryphon impatiently.

"Come on!" cried the Gryphon.

Alice panted, as she ran, but the Gryphon only answered, "Come on!" and ran the faster.

Nevertheless, he went on until about the prime of the day, what time he met a forester, to whom he said: "Sirrah, saw you two knights ride this wayone knight clad in white armor with a white shield upon which was depicted the figure of a lady, and the other knight clad in red armor with the figure of a red gryphon upon his shield?" "Nay," said the forester, "I saw not such folk."

Then he said: "Did you haply meet anywhere with a knight with the figure of a red gryphon upon his shield?"

It was of fine crimson cloth striped with silver and there was the figure of a gryphon carved upon the summit of the centre pole of the pavilion.

He was called "black," and his brother Gryphon "white" from the color of their armor.

As gold mines were guarded by Gryphons, there were perpetual contentions between the Arimaspians and the Gryphons.

As gold mines were guarded by Gryphons, there were perpetual contentions between the Arimaspians and the Gryphons.

(See GRYPHON.) Arimaspi, quos diximus uno oculo in fronte media in signes; quibus assidue bellum esse circa metella cum gryphis, ferarum volucri genere, quale vulgo traditur, eruente ex cuniculis aurum, mire cupiditate et feris custodientibus, et

If we talk of gryphons, the zoologists are upon us; of Oolb or Aklis, the geographers flourish their maps at us in defiance.

She took up the magical pen, laid ready as Helmas had directed, and she wrote with this gryphon's feather.

At one time he brooded, for a whole week, over a flamboyant design with bosses of lapis lazuli at the four corners; and only gave it up for a life-size recumbent figure in alabaster with four gryphons supporting the sarcophagus.