Cryptogram from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 2

The first of three cryptograms from chapter 2 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.

Fkbaoyyqyxyqpnfzsczunk-lvp!Vslpyunyqlvpnfzscubysnksiounvuouovt.

Where it comes from

Lewis Carroll wrote it in chapter 2 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.

After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, "Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!" Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, "If you please, sir - " The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

The sentence you are solving goes here.

One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the medium one from chapter 2.

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

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