Solved cryptogram
Now the reason hair falls off is because it hangs down - things never fall upwards, you know.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 8.
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"I should like to hear it, very much."
"First you take an upright stick," said the Knight. "Then you make your hair creep up it, like a fruit-tree. Now the reason hair falls off is because it hangs down - things never fall upwards, you know. It's a plan of my own invention. You may try it if you like."
It didn't sound a comfortable plan, Alice thought, and for a few minutes she walked on in silence, puzzling over the idea, and every now and then stopping to help the poor Knight, who certainly was not a good rider.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
- Written byLewis Carroll
- Taken fromThrough the Looking-Glass
- Difficultyhard
- Length73 letters, 21 unique
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