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Title: Alice in Blunderland
An Iridescent Dream

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Illustrator: Albert Levering

Release Date: February 14, 2009 [EBook #28069]

Language: English

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ALICE IN BLUNDERLAND

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

A House-boat on the Styx
Coffee and Repartee
Mollie and the Unwiseman
Worsted Man; A Musical Play for Amateurs
The Enchanted Typewriter
Ghosts I Have Met
Mrs. Raffles
Olympian Nights
R. Holmes & Co.
And Many Other Short Stories

Alice in Blunderland

An Iridescent Dream

By

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

Illustrated by

ALBERT LEVERING

New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1907

COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP PUBLISHING BUREAU

COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHED, SEPTEMBER, 1907

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Off to Blunderland 3

II. The Immovable Trolley 19

III. The Aromatic Gas Plant 37

IV. The City-owned Police 56

V. The Municipaphone 73

VI. The Department of Public Verse 92

VII. The Municipal Ownership of Children 108

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

The Cheshire Cat 5

The March Hare 6

"'Listen here'" 7

The municipal chewery 11

The municipal toothery 13

"Handing her a card"