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<p>A handwritten page of the original manuscript of <i>Alice's Adventures Under Ground</i>, illustrated by the author. Held and digitised by the British Library.<br>The text reads:<br>
We lived beneath the mat,
Warm and snug and fat,
But one woe, and that
Was the cat!
To our joys a clog,
In our eyes a fog,
On our hearts a log
Was the dog!
When the cat's away,
Then the mice will play.
But, alas! one day
(So they say)
Came the dog and cat, 
Hunting for a rat,
Crushed the mice all flat,
Each one as he sat
Underneath the mat,
Warm, and snug, and fat―
Think of that!
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Lewis_Carroll" class="extiw" title="w:en:Lewis Carroll"><span title="English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer (1832-1898)">Lewis Carroll</span></a>
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1864<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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