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The Rocking Horse Fly
Rocking horse fly

Real Name

The Rocking Horse Fly

First Appearance

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)

Original Publisher

Macmillan

Created by

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (as "Lewis Carroll")

Origin[]

The Rocking-Horse-Fly is an insect from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Its name and form is a pun on the rocking-horse. Its body is that of a horse with black dots and wings on its back, while its legs are connected to rockers. It is made entirely of wood and rocks about. It lives on sap and sawdust.

Public Domain Appearances[]

  • Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

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