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LOOKING-GLASS INSECTS.
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been just repainted, it looked so bright and sticky; and then she went on.
"And there's the Dragon-fly."
"Look on the branch above your head," said the Gnat, "and there you'll find a Snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum-pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy."
"And what does it live on?" Alice asked, as before.
"Frumenty and mince-pie," the Gnat replied; "and it makes its nest in a Christmas-box."