Cryptogram from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 8
The fifth of five cryptograms from chapter 8 of Through the Looking-Glass. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Cuw'xxbheyhjzbhamcuwfghjzpmfngemkbgmjEsmyyuyghyywfjejygmfuhz?
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultymedium
- Length59 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Lewis Carroll wrote it in chapter 8 of Through the Looking-Glass. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
And now, if e'er by chance I put My fingers into glue Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot Into a left-hand shoe, Or if I drop upon my toe A very heavy weight, I weep, for it reminds me so, Of that old man I used to know - Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow, Whose hair was whiter than the snow, Whose face was very like a crow, With eyes, like cinders, all aglow, Who seemed distracted with his woe, Who rocked his body to and fro, And muttered mumblingly and low, As if his mouth were full of dough, Who snorted like a buffalo - That summer evening, long ago, A-sitting on a gate."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Of course I'll wait," said Alice: "and thank you very much for coming so far - and for the song - I liked it very much."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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