And there came a day when they put their heads together by Harry Furniss. Swain, engraver. 1893. Illustration for Lewis Carroll's The Story of Sylvia and Bruno, Chapter XIII, “What Tottles Meant,” 197. Source: Hathi Digital Library Trust version of a copy in the University of North Carolina Library. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]

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“And there came a day when they put their heads together. And they understood that donkeys they had been. This chapter — one of the most curiously imaginative of any chapter written by Carroll — was originally called “The Egg-Merchant.” Source: Hathi Digital Library Trust version of a copy in the University of North Carolina Library. [Click on the image to enlarge it, and see commentary below.]

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Bibliography

Carroll, Lewis. The Story of Sylvie and Bruno. London: Macmillan & Co., 1922. Hathi Digital Library Trust version of a copy in the University of North Carolina Library. Web. 20 September 2016.


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