Excerpt from Alice's Adventures Under Ground: Being a Facsimile of the Original Ms. Book Afterwards Developed Into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Let me add - for [feel 1 have drifted into far too serious a vein for a preface to a fairy tale - the deliciously naive remarh of a very dear ch ildy'riend, whom I ashed, after an acquaintance of two or three days, if she had read A lice and the Looking Glass.' Oh yes, she refilied readily, I've read both ey' them And I think (this more slowly and thoughtfully) I thinh Through the Loohing Glass is more stupid than A lice's A dventures.' Don't you thinh so But this was a question I felt it would be hardly discreet for me to enter upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.