One, two! One, two! And through, and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves All mimsy were the borogoves Lewis Carroll. WAYS AND MEANS I'LL tell thee everything I can; There's little to relate. I saw an aged aged man, "Who are you, aged man?" I said, His answer trickled through my head He said, "I look for butterflies But I was thinking of a plan To dye one's whiskers green, And always use so large a fan That they could not be seen. Ways and Means So, having no reply to give To what the old man said, I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!" His accents mild took up the tale; And when I find a mountain-rill I set it in a blaze; And thence they make a stuff they call Yet twopence-halfpenny is all They give me for my toil." But I was thinking of a way I shook him well from side to side, Until his face was blue; Come, tell me how you live," I cried, "And what it is you do!" He said, "I hunt for haddock's eyes And work them into waistcoat-buttons And these I do not sell for gold But for a copper halfpenny "I sometimes dig for buttered rolls, And very gladly will I drink Your Honor's noble health." 871 I heard him then, for I had just To keep the Menai Bridge from rust I thanked him much for telling me And now if e'er by chance I put Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot Or if I drop upon my toe A very heavy weight, I weep, for it reminds me so Of that old man I used to know Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow, Whose hair was whiter than the snow, Whose face was very like a crow, With eyes, like cinders, all aglow, A-sitting on a gate. Lewis Carroll. HUMPTY DUMPTY'S RECITATION "IN winter, when the fields are white, I sing this song for your delight "In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean: "In summer, when the days are long, Perhaps you'll understand the song: Humpty Dumpty's Recitation In autumn, when the leaves are brown, I told them once, I told them twice: I took a kettle large and new, Fit for the deed I had to do. My heart went hop, my heart went thump: Then some one came to me and said, 'The little fishes are in bed.' I said to him, I said it plain, I said it very loud and clear: I went and shouted in his ear. But he was very stiff and proud: And he was very proud and stiff: He said, 'I'd go and wake them, if—' 873 I took a corkscrew from the shelf: I went to wake them up myself. And when I found the door was locked, And when I found the door was shut, I tried to turn the handle, but Lewis Carroll. SOME HALLUCINATIONS He thought he saw an Elephant, He looked again, and found it was "At length I realise," he said, He thought he saw a Buffalo He thought he saw a Rattlesnake He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk He looked again, and found it was "If this should stay to dine," he said, |