17

"'Put that fellow off'" 20

"Requested the Hatter to crack a filbert for him" 24

"'Banged into the car ahead'" 27

The Chief Engineer 30

"'It came to me like a flash'" 31

"'Studying the economic theories of Dr. Wack'" 45

"The White Knight interfered" 48

"'In the matter of perfume it was fine'" 50

"'Nobody could be gas-fixturated'" 51

"Wrote on the side of a convenient gas tank" 57

"'I'm the soundest sleeper in town'" 59

"'Tea is served on every corner'" 64

"'We respond immediately to the call'" 67

"Made off with the agility of an antelope" 69

"'You can talk all you please'" 73

"'Fined five dollars'" 84

"'The dictionary we are compiling'" 85

"Alice transfixed at the phone" 86

"'The biggest jackass from Dan to Beersheba'" 87

"'Larger measure than was the custom'" 94

"Greeted by the Commissioner, the Haberdasher" 99

"'It runs this way, your honour'" 100

"'Our thinking department'" 102

"'When they think nobody's looking'" 116

"'If you get into trouble, use this'" 119

"Seizing her by the arm" 122

"'Why--have I--I really fallen?'" 124

CHAPTER I

OFF TO BLUNDERLAND

It was one of those dull, drab, depressing days when somehow or other it
seemed as if there wasn't anything anywhere for anybody to do. It was
raining outdoors, so that Alice could not amuse herself in the garden,
or call upon her friend Little Lord Fauntleroy up the street; and
downstairs her mother was giving a Bridge Party for the benefit of the
M. O. Hot Tamale Company, which