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Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking GlassCHAPTER 6: Humpty Dumpty (continued)`And "THE WABE" is the grass-plot round a sun-dial, I suppose?' said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity. `Of course it is. It's called "WABE," you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it--' `And a long way beyond it on each side,' Alice added. `Exactly so. Well, then, "MIMSY" is "flimsy and miserable" (there's another portmanteau for you). And a "BOROGOVE" is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round-- something like a live mop.' `And then "MOME RATHS"?' said Alice. `I'm afraid I'm giving you a great deal of trouble.' `Well, a "RATH" is a sort of green pig: but "MOME" I'm not certain about. I think it's short for "from home"--meaning that they'd lost their way, you know.' `And what does "OUTGRABE" mean?' `Well, "OUTGRABING" is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe--down in the wood yonder--and when you've once heard it you'll be QUITE content. Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' `I read it in a book,' said Alice. `But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by--Tweedledee, I think it was.' `As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, `I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that--' `Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning. `The piece I'm going to repeat,' he went on without noticing her remark,' was written entirely for your amusement.' This is page 56 of 100. [Mark this Page] Mark any page to add this title to Your Bookshelf. (0 / 10 books on shelf) Buy a copy of Through the Looking Glass at Amazon.com
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