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Part three of our Through The Looking Glass wrap-up begins with Chapter Five, Wool And Water. Did the White Queen turn into the Sheep? Or was she mysteriously replaced? Learn what chess pieces have to do with the equation, as well as which characters are bishops, rooks, pawns and knights. Was Humpty Dumpty merely reciting poetry to Alice in Chapter 6, or recounting an actual incident involving corkscrews and fishes? We discuss all this along with the burning question: what’s so funny about Anglo-Saxon attitudes, anyway? Lewis Carroll obviously though they were a hoot.