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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

And What Alice Found There

By Lewis Carroll

The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 1.7

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
(As arranged before commencement of game.)

WHITE RED. PIECES. PAWNS. PAWNS. PIECES. Tweedledee. Daisy. Daisy. Humpty Dumpty. Unicorn. Haigha. Messenger. Carpenter. Sheep. Oyster. Oyster. Walrus. W. Queen. “Lily.” Tiger-lily. R. Queen. W. King. Fawn. Rose. R. King. Aged man. Oyster. Oyster. Crow. W. Knight. Hatta. Frog. R. Knight. Tweedledum. Daisy. Daisy. Lion.

RED.

WHITE.

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 3d (by railway) to 4th (Tweedledum and Tweedledee) 2. W. Q. to Q. B.’s 4th (after shawl) 3. Alice meets W. Q. (with shawl) 3. W. Q. to Q.B.’s 5th (becomes sheep) 4. Alice to Q.’s 5th (shop, river, shop) 4. W. Q. to K. B.’s 8th (leaves egg on shelf) 5. Alice to Q.’s 6th (Humpty Dumpty) 5. W. Q. to Q. B.’s 8th (flying from R. Kt.) 6. Alice to Q.’s 7th (forest) 6. R. Kt. to K.’s 2nd (ch.) 7. W.Kt. takes R.Kt. 7. W. Kt. to K. B’s 5th 8. Alice to Q.’s 8th (coronation) 8. R. Q. to K.’s sq. (examination) 9. Alice becomes Queen 9. Queens castle 10. Alice castles (feast) 10. W.Q. to Q.R.’s 6th (soup) 11. Alice takes R.Q. & wins

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.

CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house
CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers
CHAPTER III. Looking-Glass Insects
CHAPTER IV. Tweedledum And Tweedledee
CHAPTER V. Wool and Water
CHAPTER VI. Humpty Dumpty
CHAPTER VII. The Lion and the Unicorn
CHAPTER VIII. “It’s my own Invention”
CHAPTER IX. Queen Alice
CHAPTER X. Shaking
CHAPTER XI. Waking
CHAPTER XII. Which Dreamed it?