Tuesday, July 23, 2013

闀滀腑缂_Through The Looking Glass_41

mind that it must have been just repainted, it looked so brightand sticky; and then she went on.   `And there's the Dragon-fly.'   `Look on the branch above your head,' said the Gnat, `and thereyou'll find a snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, itswings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.'   `And what does it live on?'   `Frumenty and mince pie,' the Gnat replied; `and it makes its nest ina Christmas box.'   `And then there's the Butterfly,' Alice went on, after she had taken agood look at the insect with its head on fire, and had thought to herself, `Iwonder if that's the reason insects are so fond of flying into candles-because they want to turn into Snap-dragon-flies!'   `Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back insome alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thinslices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump ofsugar.'   `And what does IT live on?'   `Weak tea with cream in it.'   A new difficulty came

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