Cryptogram from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 12
A cryptogram from chapter 12 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.
Cjvcautfloco-vfeywyb,tfl'ohyjjybafjxyajcfacjjftflbkbcyaoinlijtyj,kfbC'xafjilby.
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultyeasy
- Length73 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Lewis Carroll wrote it in chapter 12 of Through the Looking-Glass. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Snowdrop, my pet!" she went on, looking over her shoulder at the White Kitten, which was still patiently undergoing its toilet, "when will Dinah have finished with your White Majesty, I wonder? That must be the reason you were so untidy in my dream - Dinah! do you know that you're scrubbing a White Queen? Really, it's most disrespectful of you!
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"By the way, Kitty, if only you'd been really with me in my dream, there was one thing you would have enjoyed - I had such a quantity of poetry said to me, all about fishes! To-morrow morning you shall have a real treat. All the time you're eating your breakfast, I'll repeat 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' to you; and then you can make believe it's oysters, dear!
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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