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Title: Clara In Blunderland
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Caroline Lewis, pseud.
Subjects: Satire Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Caricatures and cartoons Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Satire Political science Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898, Parodies, imitations, etc
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kind to foreigners, particularlyGermans. Hes fond of feeding them on slicesof British Empire. Clara wondered why she had not thought ofthis before she came, and was so impressed bythe good sense of the footmans remarks thatshe handed him the letter without a word, andwalked sadly away. Digitized by Google CHAPTER IX. FLAMJINGOS. Now its no use, said the Red Queen, whoseemed to have sprung up out of the ground,and stood right in front of Clara. Its no useyour bothering about that sort of thing. Youcant change our established institutions, andyoull never get on in Blunderland until youhave learnt that. Bless you, child, years andyears ago I thought there were lots of things Icould improve, and I used to talk of Reform *and all that rubbish ; but, mark my words, youmust take things as you find em, if you want tobe happy here. Now, dont argue with me, she said, to Digitized by Google FLAMJINGOS. 105 Clara, who had been standing with her handsbehind her back, not even trying to get a word
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in edgeways. Dont argue with me. Comeand see the Demonstration. She had hardly spoken when a cry was raisedof The Processions coming, and a mostbrilliant and exclusive company began to streaminto view. The Red Queen at once took the Digitized by Google 106 FLAMJINGOS. lead. You see, she said, to Clara, if I dontsomebody else will, and then the muddle wouldbe awful. The Duchess was there, lookingcrosser than ever, and trembling all over when-ever her eye caught the Queens. The WelshRabbit was sniffing suspiciously at a leek whichtheyd offered to him, but as hed eaten a largeone at Birmingham, he said he never took themnow unless they were forced upon him. Thenthere was the White Rabbit in a new wig, theMarch Hare and the Hatter, and the Cat. Andthere, right in the background, propped upsomehow on his wall again, was poor oldCrumpty-Bumpty. He looked very dismal,and seemed quite out of shape, and when Claracame closer to him, she found that he was quitecracked about the Hyphen, and only

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