Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

burning with curiosity

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

With a sort of mental squint.

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!