Posted by Sigismund on July 15, 2009, at 20:14:52
In reply to Re: Alice and Kitty, posted by TexasChic on July 14, 2009, at 20:27:03
The author's father, also Charles Dodgson, wrote this letter to his 8yo son. The younger Charles had asked his father to bring him back a file, a screwdriver and a ring. This is from the letter....
As soon as I get to Leeds I shall scream out in the middle of the street, IRONMONGERS, IRON-mongers....I WILL have a file & a screwdriver & a ring, & if they are not brought directly, in forty seconds I will leave nothing but one small cat alive in the whole of Leeds, & I shall only leave that, because I am afraid I shall not have time to kill it.
Then what a bawling and tearing of hair there will be! Pigs & babies, camels & butterflies, rolling in the gutter together - old women rushing up the chimneys & cows after them - ducks hiding themselves in coffee-cups, & fat geese trying to squeeze themselves into pencil cases.
Interesting how this kind of imagination gets handed down.
poster:Sigismund
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