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sobs.

      Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

       The End

      (Lewis Carroll)

       Table of Contents

       Dramatis Personæ

       Preface to the 1896 Edition

       Chapter 1 Looking-Glass House

       Chapter 2 The Garden of Live Flowers

       Chapter 3 Looking-Glass Insects

       Chapter 4 Tweedledum and Tweedledee

       Chapter 5 Wool and Water

       Chapter 6 Humpty Dumpty

       Chapter 7 The Lion and the Unicorn

       Chapter 8 ‘It’s my own Invention’

       Chapter 9 Queen Alice

       Chapter 10 Shaking

       Chapter 11 Waking

       Chapter 12 Which Dreamed It?

      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 my fairy-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 then, 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, the frost, 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 thee fast:

      Thou shalt not heed the raving blast.

      And though the shadow of a sigh

      May tremble through the story,

      For ‘happy summer days’ gone by,

      And vanish’d summer glory—

      It shall not touch with breath of bale

      The pleasance of our fairy-tale.

      Dramatis Personæ

       Table of Contents

      (As arranged before commencement of game)

      White

      pieces

      pawns

      ♖ Tweedledee

      Daisy ♙

      ♘ Unicorn

      Haigha ♙

      ♗ Sheep

      Oyster ♙

      ♕ W. Queen

      ‘Lily’ ♙

      ♔ W. King

      Fawn ♙

      ♗ Aged man

      Oyster ♙

      ♘ W. Knight

      Hatta ♙

      ♖ Tweedledum

      Daisy ♙

      Red

      pawns

      pieces

      ♟ Daisy

      Humpty Dumpty ♜

      ♟ Messenger

      Carpenter ♞

      ♟ Oyster

      Walrus ♝

      ♟ Tiger-lily

      R. Queen ♛

      ♟ Rose

      R. King ♚

      ♟ Oyster

      Crow ♝

      ♟ Frog

      R. Knight ♞

      ♟ Daisy

      Lion ♜

Chess board

      White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.

       1. Alice meets R. Q.

       1. R. Q. to K. R.’s 4th

      2. Alice through Q.’s 3rd (by railway)

       ” to Q.’s 4th (Tweedledum and Tweedledee)

       2. W. Q. to Q. B.’s 4th (after shawl)

       3. Alice meets W.

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