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Percival Lowell has pointed out, that, with regard to the manners and customs of the people, everything is reversed, and the surest way to go right is to take pains to go dead wrong! "To speak backward, write backward, read backward, is but the A B C of Oriental contrariety." Alice need not have gone to Wonderland; she should have come to Japan.
And so, one March morning, he sailed up the Sound to enter his mountain-walled wonderland by the portal of Port Simpson, which opens on the Pacific. His English-American friend went up as far as Simpson, and when the little coast steamer poked her prow into Work Channel he touched the President of the Chinook Mining and Milling Company and said, "The Gateway to God's world."
"Other people do it." "'Curiouser and Curiouser! I begin to think I'm in Wonderland!" she quoted. "I think the easiest way for you to do will be just to tell me all about remittance men, the way you do a child when it starts to ask questions. Just what are they, and do they all look like Pennington, and are they trained to be it, or does it come natural?"
It would be altogether out of place to think of them by our black, unsightly stoves, or in the dull and dark monotony of our furnace-heated rooms. Within the circle of the light of the open fire safely might the young conjurers question destiny; for none but kindly and gentle messengers from wonderland could venture among them.
Irregular in shape, it may be said to be about sixty miles across on the average, and it contains an area of 3,500 square miles. Mr. Olin D. Wheeler, in an admirable treatise on this park, in which he describes some of the many wonders in the marvelous region traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad, thus rhapsodizes: "The Yellowstone Park! The gem of wonderland. The land of mystic splendor.
It sounds like something out of `Alice in Wonderland." "And you," retorted Heyl, "sound like some one who's afraid to talk or think about herself. You're suppressing the thing that is you. You're cutting yourself off from your own people a dramatic, impulsive, emotional people. By doing those things you're killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
I read the label over and over again, and joined it to the fact that I still wore my former clothes, and that my revolver had been lying at my feet. One conclusion stared out at me. This was no new planet, no glorious hereafter such as I had supposed. This beautiful wonderland was the world, the same old world of my rage and death!
"Three copies of Alice in Wonderland!" exclaimed Alice. "That seems a rather large proportion!" Catherine, who had secured Friendship Village, and was rejoicing in her good fortune, answered the criticism.
New York: Harper & Brothers. "Davy the Goblin; or, What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," By Charles E. Carryl. Boston; Ticknor & Co. "Bric-
"And I," retaliated he, "I am acquainted with a broken-down old doctor and his wife, in Trastevere, who shall have meat and wine at dinner for the next two months at the expense of a niece of mine. 'I am so glad, as Alice of Wonderland says, 'that you married into our family." "Alice of Wonderland ?" doubted Beatrice. The Cardinal waved his hand. "Oh, if you prefer, Punch.
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