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Title: Through the looking glass, and what Alice found there
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, ill
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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fcid «8&vo\Kyto6 aAi s^aw \raicujw SXk She puzzled over this for some time, butat last a bright thought struck her. Why,its a Looking-glass book, of course ! And, ifI hold it up to a glass, the words will all gothe right way again. This was the poem that Alice read. JABBERWOCKY. -Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Bid gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 22 LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE. Bewa re the Jabberwoeh, my son ! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch! He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the mavxome foe he sought-So rested he by the Tumtum tree,And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwoclc, with eyes of flame,Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing bach. LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE. 23
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24 LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE. And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?Come to my arms, my beamish boy !0 frabjous day ! Callooh! Callay!He chortled in his joy. Twas brillig, and the slithy tones Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. It seems very pretty, she said when shehad finished it, but its rather hard to under-stand ! (You see she didnt like to confess, evento herself, that she couldnt make it out at all.) Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I dont exactly know what they are!However, somebody killed something: thats clear, at any rate But oh ! thought Alice, suddenly jumpingup, if I dont make haste, I shall have to LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE. 25 go back through the Looking-glass, before Iveseen what the rest of the house is like ! Letshave a look at the garden first! She was outof the room in a moment, and ran down stairs—or, at least, it wasnt exactly running, but anew invention for getting down stairs quicklyand easily, as Al

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