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The Annotated Alice
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner Copyright © MCMLX by Martin Gardner | ||
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The Lewis Carroll Handbook, 1962, reveals (p. 95) that a four-stanza answer to the White Queens riddle, in the same meter as the riddle, appeared in the English periodical Fun, October 30, 1878, p. 175. The answer had been previously submitted to Carroll, who polished up the meter for the anonymous author. The answers final stanza, as quoted in the Handbook, is:
Get an oyster-knife strong, Insert it twixt cover and dish in the middle; Then you shall before long, Un-dish-cover the OYSTERS dishcover the riddle! | ||
text checked (see note) Mar 2005 |
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