. Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there . Lewis Carroll^aged 8 174 A Biographical Sketch continued their out-of-door life. Charles was aleader in all their sports, drawing pictures, tell-ing stories, inventing games, and planning newplays. Most of the drawings in the text of this sketchwere drawn by Lewis Carroll for a book ofsketches entitled The Rectory Umbrella, and illus-trated his poem, The Tico Brothers^ and anotherpoem, Lays of .Wvvre, which caricatured Macau-lays of Ancient Rome. Othersof the drawings were made byLewis Carroll for a copy of Alice sAdicntitres in W
. Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there . Lewis Carroll^aged 8 174 A Biographical Sketch continued their out-of-door life. Charles was aleader in all their sports, drawing pictures, tell-ing stories, inventing games, and planning newplays. Most of the drawings in the text of this sketchwere drawn by Lewis Carroll for a book ofsketches entitled The Rectory Umbrella, and illus-trated his poem, The Tico Brothers^ and anotherpoem, Lays of .Wvvre, which caricatured Macau-lays of Ancient Rome. Othersof the drawings were made byLewis Carroll for a copy of Alice sAdicntitres in Wonderland^ whichall the text and illustrations werein his hand, and presented by himto the original Alice of the a wheelbarrow, a barrel,and a small truck he constructed atrain that made regular trips fromstation to station in the rectorygarden. He knew how to useto--Is, and, with a little help, builta tiny theater and made a set ofpuppets, for whom he wroteappropriate plays. I le was a skill-ful conjurer and gave good sleight-of-hand perform
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