INTRODUCTION Liddell's three little girls.
he
we
felt
way along,
his
tell stories
as
No doubt
we all do when
to children,
shaping his
course according to results, and testing every invention by the degree of en-
tertainment
man who lived
it
afforded.
took pains with
an undistracted
life,
He was a trifles. He and, having
incorrigible habits of industry,
found
do carefully many things men would not consider worth all. As Alice's story grew
leisure to
that most /
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doing at in use, he wrote
The idea it down. was an after-thought. When that idea came to him, he paid attention to it and inasmuch as he was of
printing
it
;
going to make a book, he took the pains with it that it was his nature to take about anything to which he turned his
hand
or his
mind
He made
the best
book he could got the best pictures he it, and worked with illustrator and publisher over every detail of its construction. The first edition of two ;
could for