The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in WonderlandBowman, Isa
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The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland
Bowman, Isa
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Juvenile literature
They had breakfast at Ch. Ch., in the rooms of the A.A.M., and then Isa
learned how to print with the "Typewriter", and printed several beautiful
volumes of poetry, all of her own invention. By this time it was 1
o'clock, so Isa paid a visit to the Kitchen, to make sure that the
chicken, for her dinner, was being properly roasted The Kitchen is about
the oldest part of the College, so was built about 1546. It has a
fire-grate large enough to roast forty legs of mutton at once.
Then they saw the Dining Hall, in which the A.A.M. has dined several
times, (about 8,000 times, perhaps). After dinner, they went, through the
quadrangle of the Bodleian Library, into Broad Street, and, as a band was
just going by, of course they followed it. (Isa likes Bands better than
anything in the world, except Lands, and walking on Sands, and wringing
her Hands). The Band led them into the gardens of Wadham College (built in
1613), where there was a school-treat going on. The treat was, first
marching twice round the garden--then having a photograph done of them,
all in a row--then a =promise= of "Punch and Judy", which wouldn't be
ready for 20 minutes, so Isa, and Co., wouldn't wait, but went back to Ch.
Ch., and saw the "Broad Walk." In the evening they played at "Reversi",
till Isa had lost the small remainder of her temper. Then she went to bed,
and dreamed she was Judy, and was beating Punch with a stick of
Barley-sugar.
=Chap. IV.=
On Friday morning (after taking her medicine very amiably), went with the
A.A.M. (who =would= go with her, though she told him over and over she
would rather be alone) to the gardens of Worcester College (built in 1714)
where they didn't see the swans (who ought to have been on the lake), nor
the hippopotamus, who ought not to have been walking about among the
flowers, gathering honey like a busy bee.
After breakfast, Isa helped the A.A.M. to pack his luggage, because he
thought he would go away, he didn't know where, some day, he didn't know
when--so she put a lot of things, she didn't know what, into boxes, she
didn't know which.
After dinner they went to St. John's College (built in 1555), and admired
the large lawn, where more than 150 ladies, dressed in robes of gold and
silver, were not walking about.
Then they saw the Chapel of Keble College (built in 1870) and then the
New Museum, where Isa quite lost her heart to a charming stuffed Gorilla,
that smiled on her from a glass case. The Museum was finished in 1860. The
most curious thing they saw there was a "Walking Leaf," a kind of insect
that looks exactly like a withered leaf.
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