Alice in Blunderland
Alice in
Blunderland
An Iridescent Dream
By
Illustrated by
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1907
Copyright, 1906, by the
Municipal Ownership Publishing Bureau
Copyright, 1907, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, September, 1907
All Rights Reserved
Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages
Including the Scandanavian
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Off to Blunderland | 3 |
| II. | The Immovable Trolley | 19 |
| III. | The Aromatic Gas Plant | 37 |
| IV. | The City-owned Police | 56 |
| V. | The Municipaphone | 73 |
| VI. | The Department of Public Verse | 92 |
| VII. | The Municipal Ownership of Children | 108 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| The Cheshire Cat | 5 |
| The March Hare | 6 |
| "'Listen here'" | 7 |
| The municipal chewery | 11 |
| The municipal toothery | 13 |
| "Handing her a card" | 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 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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