Bangs, John Kendrick: Alice in Blunderland. v2. 20 Mar 2015
 

John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, editor and satirist.
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IT was one of those dull, drab, depressing days when somehow or other it seemed as if there wasn't anything anywhere for anybody to do. It was raining outdoors, so that Alice could not amuse herself in the garden, or call upon her friend Little Lord Fauntleroy up the street; and downstairs her mother was giving a Bridge Party for the benefit of the M.*O. Hot Tamale Company, which had lately fallen upon evil days.