... and his siblings entertained with stories and drawings he contributed to a family magazine. Dodgson enjoyed making up stories for children, three such children being Alice Liddell and her sisters, which is whom "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" were created for. After a very brief life spent enchanting children and their parents with fantastical tales about scary Jabberwocky's and disappearing cats, Carroll ... off its head, then takes it home to his father. His father is overjoyed that the boy killed the beast and celebrates his kill. This poem appeared within a book...

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Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky There was a book lying near Alice on the table and while she sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, "--for it's all in some language I don't know", she said ... . It was like this. She puzzled over this for some time, but at last a bright thought struck her. "Why, it's a Looking-glass book, of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again." This was the poem t...

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