Disclaimer: "Call nothing thine save thy honor, and certainly not Alice in Wonderland or Jean-Jacques Audubon's loon paintings." That's my motto.


"What did that Alice creature say just now?" said the Salamander-Juror to his neighbour, the Bat.

"'Stupid things', I believe," the Bat replied.

"Ah," said the Salamander, jotting that down. "Did you catch why?"

"Because we were writing down our names," said the Bat. "She thought it foolish that we might forget them."

The Salamander frowned. "Well, that's rather harsh of her," he said. "After all, if her name was Pseudohynobius flavomaculatus, she might have some trouble remembering it herself, mightn't she?"

"Or Lasionycteris noctivagans," the Bat added. "Yes, one would think so. But you can never tell with Alices."