Cryptogram from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 6

The first of two cryptograms from chapter 6 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.

Oisxllpoiqskbvqwgaz-ubabvosqisqbttisksaolmo,dmogoymtongttshisq.

Where it comes from

Lewis Carroll wrote it in chapter 6 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.

"Wow! wow! wow!"

The sentence you are solving goes here.

Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, "just like a star-fish," thought Alice. The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.

Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.

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