III. Looking-Glass Insects
(The score contains extracts from the dialogue of Alice and the gnat “about the size of a chicken” about various insects, among them the bread-and-butter-fly.
“‘And what does it live on?’
“‘Weak tea with cream in it.’
“‘Supposing it couldn’t find any?’
“‘Then it would die, of course.’
“‘But that must happen very often,’ said Alice thoughtfully.
“‘It always happens,’ said the gnat.”)
Here we find the vociferous diptera that made such an impression upon Alice—the Bee-elephant, the Gnat, the Rocking-horse-fly, the Snap-dragon-fly, and the Bread-and-butter-fly. There are several themes, but there is no use trying to decide which insect any one of them stands for.