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Title: A Tangled Tale

Author: Lewis Carroll

Illustrator: Arthur B. Frost

Release Date: June 5, 2009 [EBook #29042]

Language: English

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A TANGLED TALE

[Decoration]

[Illustration: "AT A PACE OF SIX MILES IN THE HOUR."

_Frontispiece._]

A TANGLED TALE

BY

LEWIS CARROLL

_WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS_

BY

ARTHUR B. FROST

Hoc meum tale quale est accipe.

_SECOND THOUSAND._

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1885

[_All Rights Reserved_]

RICHARD CLAY & SONS,
BREAD STREET HILL, LONDON, E.C.

_And Bungay, Suffolk_.

To My Pupil.

Beloved pupil! Tamed by thee,
Addish-, Subtrac-, Multiplica-tion,
Division, Fractions, Rule of Three,
Attest thy deft manipulation!

Then onward! Let the voice of Fame
From Age to Age repeat thy story,
Till thou hast won thyself a name
Exceeding even Euclid's glory!

PREFACE.

This Tale originally appeared as a serial in _The Monthly Packet_,
beginning in April, 1880. The writer's intention was to embody in each
Knot (like the medicine so dexterously, but ineffectually, concealed in
the jam of our early childhood) one or more mathematical questions--in
Arithmetic, Algebra, or Geometry, as the case might be--for the
amusement, and possible edification, of the fair readers of that
Magazine.

L. C.

_October, 1885._

CONTENTS.

KNOT PAGE

I.