| The Sheep | |
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Real Name |
Sheep |
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First Appearance |
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) |
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Original Publisher |
Macmillan |
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Created by |
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (as "Lewis Carroll") |
Origin[]
The Sheep is first mentioned in the fifth chapter of Through the Looking Glass, "Wool and Water". The White Queen is talking to Alice, when she suddenly starts "baa-ing" and then seems to 'wrap herself in wool'. Alice figures out she is in a shop, and that The White Queen has turned into a sheep. The Sheep sits in her chair knitting as Alice looks around the shop. She gives Alice a pair of her knitting needles, an asks her if she can row. As Alice begins to answer, she realizes that they are in a little boat, and that the needles have turned into oars. As they glide along the water, the Sheep repeatedly shouts out "Feather," and tells Alice that they will be catching crabs. Alice's attention is then put onto some scented rushes growing in the water. She tries picking them, but they are only 'dream rushes' and melt away. She then quickly catches a crab, which she actually didn't see, and they are all suddenly in the shop again. Alice buys an egg from the Sheep (that ends up turning into Humpty Dumpty) and the two part ways. In the dramatis personae for Through the Looking-Glass, the Sheep is designated as being the White Queen's bishop.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
- A New Alice in the Old Wonderland