Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
a popular story for children by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), a clergyman of Oxford, England. The story was published in 1865. "What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" Alice asks, at the outset; and the book recounting her adventures is certainly full of delightful pictures and amazing conversations. It is a humorous tale of a little girl who follows a remarkable rabbit--with a watch in his waistcoat pocket--to a land where she soon "gets used to queer things happening." Sometimes rhymes are introduced in the "conversations," although the words do not always "come the same as they used to do,"
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale.
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale.
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