Cryptogram from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 3
The first of three cryptograms from chapter 3 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.
Jtsdesjfazchdqfsdr-S'zcdqincdaxcdn,ghqSvcd'qqisdmsq'rocqfdxdfzn.
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultymedium
- Length58 letters, 19 unique
Where it comes from
Lewis Carroll wrote it in chapter 3 of Through the Looking-Glass. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
However, this was anything but a regular bee: in fact it was an elephant - as Alice soon found out, though the idea quite took her breath away at first. "And what enormous flowers they must be!" was her next idea. "Something like cottages with the roofs taken off, and stalks put to them - and what quantities of honey they must make! I think I'll go down and - no, I won't just yet," she went on, checking herself just as she was beginning to run down the hill, and trying to find some excuse for turning shy so suddenly. "It'll never do to go down among them without a good long branch to brush them away - and what fun it'll be when they ask me how I like my walk. I shall say - 'Oh, I like it well enough - '" (here came the favourite little toss of the head), "'only it was so dusty and hot, and the elephants did tease so!'"
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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