Alice Through The Looking-Glass

Illustrated children's book by Lewis Carroll - online version

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LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS.
57
Alice looked at the Rocking-horse fly with great interest, and made up her mind that it must have been just repainted, it looked so bright and sticky; and then she went on.
"And there's the Dragon-fly."
" Look.on the branch above your head," said the Gnat, "and there you'll find a Snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy."
" And what does it live on ? " Alice asked, as before.
"Frumenty and mince-pie," the Gnat replied: "and it makes its nest in a Christmas-box."
"And then there's the Butterfly," Alice went on, after she had taken a good look at the insect