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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE

by LEWIS CARROLL

CONTENTS
Looking-Glass house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The Garden of Live Flowers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Looking-Glass Insects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Tweedledum and Tweedledee . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Wool and Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Humpty Dumpty .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 The Lion and the Unicorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 ‘It’s My Own Invention’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Queen Alice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Shaking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Waking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Which Dreamed it? . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 134

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale. I have not seen thy sunny face, Nor heard thy silver laughter: No thought of me shall find a place In thy young life’s hereafter – Enough that now thou wilt not fail To listen to myfairy-tale. A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing– A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of our rowing– Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say “forget.” Come, hearken, ere voice of dread, With bitter tidings laden, Shall summon to unwelcome bed A melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near. Without, thefrost, the blinding snow, The storm-wind’s moody madness– Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow, And childhood’s nest of gladness. The magic words shall hold the fast: Thou shalt not heed the raving blast. And, though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story,

For”happy summer glory– It shall not touch, with breath of bale, The pleasance of our fairy-tale.

RED

WHITE
White Pawn(Alice)to play, and win in eleven moves
PAGE 1. Alice meets R.Q. 27 2. Alice through Q.’s 3d (by railway) 37 to Q.’s 4th (Tweedledum and Tweedledee) 50 3.Alice meets W.Q. (with shawl) 67 4. Alice to Q.’s 5th (shop, river, shop) 70 5. Alice to Q.’s 6th (Humpty Dumpty) 75 6. Alice to Q.’s 7th (forest) 89 7. W. Kt. takes R. Kt. 104 8. Alice to Q.’s 8th (coronation) 115 9. Alice become Queen 124 10. Alicecastles (feast) 126 11 Alice takes R.Q. and wins 132 PAGE 1. R.Q. to K.R. 4th 32 2. W.Q. to Q.B.’s 4th (after shawl) 67 3. W.Q. to Q.B.’s 5th (becomes sheep) 4.W.Q. to K.B.’s 8th (leaves egg on shelf ) 5. W.Q. to Q.B.’s 8th (flying from R. Kt.) 6. R. Kt. to K.’s 2nd (ch.) 7. W. Kt. to K.B.’s 5th 8. R.Q. to K.’s sq (examination) 9. Queen’s castle 10. W.Q. to Q. R. 6th (soup)

70 74 95 104 115 117124 131

PREFACE
As the chess-problem, given on a previous page, has puzzled some of my readers, it may be well to explain that it is correctly worked out, so far as the moves are concerned. The alternation of Red and White is perhaps not so strictly observed as it might be, and the ‘castling’ of the three Queens is merely a way of saying that they entered the palace; but the ‘check’ of theWhite King at move 6, the capture of the Red Knight at move 7, and the final ‘check-mate’ of the Red King, will be found, by any one who will take the trouble to set the pieces and play the moves as directed, to be strictly in accordance with the laws of the game. The new words, in the poem ‘Jabberwocky’ (see page 19), have given rise to some differences of opinion as to their pronounciation: so itmay be well to give instructions on that point also. Pronounce ‘slithy’ as if it were to the words ‘sly, the’: make the ‘g’ hard in ‘gyre’ and ‘gimble’: and pronounce ‘rath’ to rhyme with ‘bath.’ Christmas,1896

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE

CHAPTER 1

Looking-Glass house
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:— it was the...