The Westminster Alice

								


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                                  THE

                           WESTMINSTER ALICE



                                  BY

                       HECTOR H. MUNRO (“SAKI”)



                            ILLUSTRATED BY

                         F. CARRUTHERS GOULD.



                                LONDON

                          WESTMINSTER GAZETTE

                                 1902



                        [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]

     With apologies to Sir John Tenniel and to everybody else

     concerned, including Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Limited, to whose

     courtesy we are indebted for permission to publish these political

     applications of the immortal adventures of Lewis Carroll’s Alice.

CONTENTS

                                                                    PAGE
INTRODUCTION                                                           1
ALICE IN DOWNING STREET                                                3
ALICE IN PALL MALL                                                    11
ALICE AT LAMBETH                                                      17
ALICE AND THE LIBERAL PARTY                                           23
ALICE ANYWHERE BUT IN DOWNING STREET                                  29
ALICE IN DIFFICULTIES                                                 35
ALICE AT ST. STEPHEN’S                                                39
ALICE LUNCHES AT WESTMINSTER                                          43
ALICE IN A FOG                                                        47
ALICE HAS TEA AT THE HOTEL CECIL                                      53
ALICE GOES TO CHESTERFIELD                                            59
THE AGED MAN                                                          65
SPADES IN WONDERLAND                                                  67

THE WESTMINSTER ALICE

INTRODUCTION

    “Alice,” Child with dreaming eyes,

        Noting things that come to pass

    Turvey-wise in Wonderland

        Backwards through a Looking-Glass.



    Figures flit across thy dream,

        Muddle through and flicker out

    Some in cocksure blessedness,

        Some in Philosophic Doubt.



    Some in brackets, some in sulks,

        Some with latchkeys on the ramp,

    Living (in a sort of peace)

        In a Concentration Camp.



    Party moves on either side,

        Checks and feints that don’t deceive,

    Knights and Bishops, Pawns and all,

        In a game of Make-Believe.



    Things that fall contrariwise,

        Difficult to understand,

    Darkly through a Looking-Glass

        Turvey-wise in Wonderland.

ALICE IN DOWNING STREET