Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Title Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there Authors: Lewis Carroll, Sir John Tenniel Illustrated by: Sir John Tenniel Edition: 61 Publisher: Henry Altemus, 1897 (first published (1871) Original from: the University of Michigan Digitized: Jul 11, 2005 Length: 218 pages

Tweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in a nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom.

They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had 'DUM' embroidered on his collar, and the other 'DEE.' "I suppose they've each got 'TWEEDLE' round at the back of the collar," she said to herself.

They stood so still that she quite forgot they were alive, and she was just looking round to see if the word 'TWEEDLE' was written at the back of each collar, when she was startled by a voice coming from the one marked 'DUM.'

"If you think we're wax-works," he said, '- you ought to pay, you know. Wax-works weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"

"Contrariwise," added the one marked ' DEE,' " if you think we're alive, you ought to speak."

"I'm sure I'm very sorry," was all Alice could say; for the words of the old song kept ringing through her head like the ticking of a clock, and she could hardly help saying them out loud:

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

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The Walrus and the Carpenter Alice Through the Looking-glass

'If this were only cleared away/ They said, 'it would be grand!" Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There: And what Alice Found There By Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Peter Newell. Illustrated by Peter Newell. Published by Macmillan and Co., 1902. Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized May 19, 2007, 224 pages

"'The time has come,' the Walrus said,

'To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-
wax—

Of cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot—
And whether pigs have wings.'

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Jabberwocky AliceThrough the Looking-glass

Through the Looking-glass and what Alice Found There. By Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Peter Newell Illustrated by Peter Newell (1862-1924). Published by Macmillan and Co., 1902. Original from the New York Public Library Digitized May 19, 2007. 224 pages

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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, 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 head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

The Goose that laid the Golden Egg

The Goose that laid the Golden Egg: Wonder-world: a collection of fairy tales, tr. from the Fr., Germ., and Danish: a collection of fairy tales, tr. from the Fr., Germ., and Danish. By Wonder-world Published by , 1875 Original from Oxford University. Digitized Jul 24, 2006

A poor woman was gathering fuel—fallen branches; she bore them upon her back, and carried her little child at her breast, and was now on her way home. She saw the golden swan, the Swan of Good Fortune, spring up from the rushy banks. What was that gleaming there ? A golden egg - it was still warm. She laid it in her bosom, and the warmth remained ; there was certainly life in the egg. Yes, there was a pecking inside the shell; she heard it; and thought it was her own heart that was beating.

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Huckleberry Finn Hunting

Huckleberry Finn Hunting. Public Domain ClipArt Stock Photos and Images.

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Published by , 1884. Original from Oxford University. Digitized Jun 13, 2007.

Huckleberry Finn Hunting, NOTICE. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished ; persons attempting to find a plot in it will te shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR. Per G. O., CHIEF OF OKDNANCE.

EXPLANATORY. In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods South-Western dialect; the ordinary " Pike-County " dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guess-work; but pains-takingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.

I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. THE AUTHOR.

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