Inside the story
Meet Mock Turtle
The Mock Turtle is a melancholy sea creature whom Alice meets in Wonderland. He weeps as he recalls his schooling under the sea, and he joins the Gryphon in singing and performing the Lobster Quadrille.
On the page
A doleful hybrid beast with the domed greenish-brown shell and flippers of a turtle but the head, hooves and tail of a calf, enormous glistening eyes brimming with tears and a downturned sorrowful mouth; seated on a rock, one flipper wiping his cheek.
