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`Alice' Devotees Grin in Wonder At Curious Find

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19920707
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LONDON Devotees of writer Lewis Carroll believe they have found what inspired his grinning Cheshire Cat, made famous in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Members of the Lewis Carroll Society made the discovery over the weekend in a church at which the author's father once was rector in the village of Croft in northern England.

It is a rough-hewn carving of a cat's head smiling near an altar, probably dating to the 10th century. Seen from below and from the perspective of a small boy, all that can be seen is the grinning mouth.

Devotees of the 19th century writer remembered Alice ...

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