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Our trip to Blunderland

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By J. H. A. Macdonald
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A trio of boys, inspired by tales of a little girl's dreamlike travels, follow her instructions and are led into an imagined town where logic is playfully inverted. They encounter absurd machines, anthropomorphic contrivances, and eccentric inhabitants in a sequence of comic, episodic scenes. The book alternates light nursery humor with gentle parody of grown-up conventions, using whimsical episodes and illustrations to sustain a childlike sense of wonder before returning the group to ordinary life.

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Title: Our trip to Blunderland

or, grand excursion to Blundertown and back

Author: J. H. A. Macdonald

Illustrator: Charles Altamont Doyle

Release date: November 30, 2024 [eBook #74822]

Language: English

Original publication: Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1877

Credits: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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OUR TRIP TO BLUNDERLAND

OUR TRIP
TO
BLUNDERLAND

OR

BY
JEAN JAMBON

WITH SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLES DOYLE

THIRD THOUSAND

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLXXVII

All Rights reserved

The nursery has its share of my day, in such fashion that little people may not think big people created to stop fun and to be a throttle-valve on animal spirits. But there are romps and romps, some being beyond an adipose six-foot-two. Hence this story. Perhaps it will prove acceptable at cooling times in other nurseries, as it was in ours.

It may be thought that in introducing a certain little lady ALICEnce has been taken. But royal personages are public property. Will he that crowned queen Alice deign to accept the two little pages devoted to her as proof that it is held an honour to follow in the train of Carrollus Primus? Forbid it that this one should lose his head, or be facile, except in conjunction with princeps. Long live Carrollus Le Wis! for if he failed us, who could be got in lieu is a question. Never was there one greater at the feat of putting things on a child’s footing, and to have but half his understanding of how to do it is the sole ambition of one

Jambe On.