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The most striking feature of the dictionary is its etymology. Almost every word is supplied with a derivation, often very far-fetched. Thus glisco is derived from 'glykis, quod est dulcis; que enim dulcia sunt desiderare solemus': gliscere therefore is equivalent to desiderare, crescere, pinguescere and several other words. After this we are not surprised at the following account of a dormouse.
"What is a Dormouse anyhow?" asked Tom, to whom it now occurred for the first time that he had never seen a Dormouse. "Ho!" jeered Righty, as Tom asked the question. "The idea of not knowing what a Dormouse is!" "He's a mouse with a door to him, of course," said Lefty. "Which he keeps closed," said the Poker, "so that he will not be disturbed while he is asleep."
He was a gentle-faced old man, not unlike a very shrewd and wide-awake dormouse; and his white hair stood out in a mass beneath his biretta. But the words he used were unintelligible, though not altogether unfamiliar. "I . . . I don't understand, father," stammered the man. The priest looked at him sharply.
Mouse cages white mouse cages and dormouse cages, a wooden ruler with idle scratches all over it and "P.S." in the corner boxes and boxes of things he wouldn't want; he'd say if he saw them now: "Throw it away" boxes of glass tubes he had blown when he was fifteen, boxes of dried modelling clay.... "I must have wood," she said aloud, and picked up another useless fragment.
"Why, yes, it was the first thing waked me for that nightcap which I pulled on, made me sleep like a dormouse Pshaw, I feel my brains giddy with it yet." "And wherefore came you not on the instant? I never needed help more."
"And, my word, what a sight the old dormouse looks! He must have been at a New Year's feast in heaven." "You're the same merry devil that you were in the old days," said Lasse. "Well, good spirits'll soon be the only thing to be had without paying for." The wall of the house stuck out in a large round lump on one side, and Pelle had to go up to it to feel it all over.
I used to know the difference between the Sardinian dormouse and the ordinary kind, and whether the wry-neck arrives at our shores earlier than the cuckoo, or the other way round, and how long the walrus takes in growing to maturity; I daresay you knew all those sorts of things once, but I bet you've forgotten them." "Those things are not important," said Mrs. Eggelby, "but "
"Why not?" said the March Hare. Alice was silent. The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on: " that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness you know you say things are 'much of a muchness' did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?"
'Suppose we change the subject, the March Hare interrupted, yawning. 'I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells us a story. 'I'm afraid I don't know one, said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal. 'Then the Dormouse shall! they both cried. 'Wake up, Dormouse! And they pinched it on both sides at once. The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes.
Spiders, too, are uncomfortable pets; you can't caress them as you could a dormouse; the most you can do is to provide your spider with a clear glass bottle to live in, and teach him to come out in response to a musical sound, drawn from a banjo or fiddle, to take a fly from your fingers and go back again to its bottle.
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