Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream By
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Copyright, 1906, by the
Municipal Ownership Publishing Bureau
Copyright, 1907, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, September, 1907
All Rights Reserved
Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages
Including the Scandanavian
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Off to Blunderland | 3 |
| II. | The Immovable Trolley | 19 |
| III. | The Aromatic Gas Plant | 37 |
| IV. | The City-owned Police | 56 |
| V. | The Municipaphone | 73 |
| VI. | The Department of Public Verse | 92 |
| VII. | The Municipal Ownership of Children | 108 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| The Cheshire Cat | 5 |
| The March Hare | 6 |
| "'Listen here'" | 7 |
| The municipal chewery | 11 |
| The municipal toothery | 13 |
| "Handing her a card" | 17 |
| '"Put that fellow off'" | 20 |
| "Requested the Hatter to crack a filbert for him" | 24 |
| "'Banged into the car ahead'" | 27 |
| The Chief Engineer | 30 |
| "'It came to me like a flash'" | 31 |
| "'Studying the economic theories of Dr. Wack'" | 45 |
| "The White Knight interfered" | 48 |
| "'In the matter of perfume it was fine'" | 50 |
| "'Nobody could be gas-fixturated'" | 51 |
| "Wrote on the side of a convenient gas tank" | 57 |
| "'I'm the soundest sleeper in town'" | 59 |
| "'Tea is served on every corner'" | 64 |
| "'We respond immediately to the call'" | 67 |
| "Made off with the agility of an "antelope" | 69 |
| "'You can talk all you please'" | 73 |
| "'Fined five dollars'" | 84 |
| "'The dictionary we are compiling'" | 85 |
| "Alice transfixed at the phone" | 86 |
| "'The biggest jackass from Dan to Beersheba'" | 87 |
| "'Larger measure than was the custom'" | 94 |
| "Greeted by the Commissioner, the Haberdasher" | 99 |
| "'It runs this way, your honour'" | 100 |
| '"Our thinking department'" | 102 |
| "'When they think nobody's looking'" | 116 |
| "'If you get into trouble, use this'" | 119 |
| "Seizing her by the arm" | 122 |
| "'Why—have I—I really fallen?'" | 124 |
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The author died in 1922, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.