Alice. "I'm afraid I'm giving you a great deal of trouble."
"Well, a rath is a sort of green pig; but mome I'm not certain about. I think it's short for 'from home'—meaning that they'd lost their way, you know."
And what does outgrabe mean?" Well, outgribing is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle; however, you'll hear it done, maybe—down in the wood yonder; and, when you've once heard it, you'll be quite content. Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?"
"I read it in a book," said Alice. "But I had some poetry repeated to me much easier than that, by—Tweedledee, I think it was."
"As to poetry, you know," said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, "I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that—"
