“I rowed stroke and he rowed bow in the famous Long Vacation voyage to Godstow, when the three Miss Liddells were our passengers, and the story was actually composed and spoken over my shoulder.”

Of the origin of Alice in Wonderland.
The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899), p. 358

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