'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, 'I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep back, please: we don't want you with us!"'
"Se mi estus la merlango," diris Alicio ankoraŭ pripensante la kanton, "mi dirus al la fokeno: 'Malantaŭen Sinjoro! oni ne bezonas vin.'"