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
Then they went home, down a little narrow street, where there was a little
dog standing fixed in the middle of the street, as if its feet were glued
to the ground: they asked it how long it meant to stand there, and it said
(as well as it could) "till the week after next".
Then Isa went to bed, and dreamed she was going round Magdalen Meadow,
with the "Amurrican" lady, and there was a buffalo sitting at the top of
every tree, handing her cups of tea as she went underneath: but they all
held the cups upside-down, so that the tea poured all over her head and
ran down her face.
=Chap. VI.=
On Sunday morning they went to St. Mary's church, in High Street. In
coming home, down the street next to the one where they had found a fixed
dog, they found a fixed cat--a poor little kitten, that had put out its
head through the bars of the cellar-window, and get back again. They rang
the bell at the next door, but the maid said the cellar wasn't in that
house, and, before they could get to the right door the cat had unfixed
its head----either from its neck or from the bars, and had gone inside.
Isa thought the animals in this city have a curious way of fixing
themselves up and down the place, as if they were hat-pegs.
Then they went back to Ch. Ch., and looked at a lot of dresses, which the
A.A.M kept in a cupboard, to dress up children in, when they come to be
photographed. Some of the dresses had been used in Pantomimes at Drury
Lane: some were rags, to dress up beggar-children in: some had been very
magnificent once, but were getting quite old and shabby. Talking of old
dresses, there is one College in Oxford, so old that it is not known for
certain when it was built The people, who live there, say it was built
more than 1000 years ago: and, when they say this, the people who live in
the other Colleges never contradict them, but listen most
respectfully----only they wink a little with one eye, as if they didn't
=quite= believe it.
The same day, Isa saw a curious book of pictures of ghosts. If you look
hard at one for a minute, and then look at the ceiling, you see another
ghost there: only, when you have a black one in the book, it is a =white=
one on the ceiling: when it is green in the book, it is =pink= on the
ceiling.
In the middle of the day, as usual, Isa had her dinner: but this time it
was grander than usual. There was a dish of "Meringues" (this is
pronounced "Marangs"), which Isa thought so good that she would have liked
to live on them all the rest of her life.
They took a little walk in the afternoon, and in the middle of Broad
Street they saw a cross buried in the ground, very near the place where
the Martyrs were burned. Then they went into the gardens of Trinity
College (built in 1554) to see the "Lime Walk", a pretty little avenue of
lime-trees. The great iron "gates" at the end of the garden are not real
gates, but all done in one piece: and they couldn't open them, even if you
knocked all day. Isa thought them a miserable sham.
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