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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll
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+Title: The Hunting of the Snark
+       an Agony, in Eight Fits
+
+Author: Lewis Carroll
+
+Illustrator: Henry Holiday
+
+Release Date: September 1, 2009 [EBook #29888]
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+Language: English
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+  [Cover:
+  THE
+  HUNTING
+  OF THE
+  SNARK]
+
+
+
+
+  AN EASTER GREETING
+  to
+  EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES
+  "+Alice+."
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+          +The Hunting of the Snark.+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                  THE HUNTING
+
+                  OF THE SNARK
+
+
+                  +an Agony,
+                in Eight Fits.+
+
+
+                       By
+                 LEWIS CARROLL
+
+  Author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,"
+        and "Through the Looking-Glass."
+
+
+           _WITH NINE ILLUSTRATIONS_
+                       by
+                 HENRY HOLIDAY
+
+
+                   +London+:
+               MACMILLAN AND CO.
+                     1876.
+
+[_The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved._]
+
+
+
+
+  London:
+  R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers,
+  Bread Street Hill.
+
+
+
+
+  +Inscribed to a dear Child:
+  in memory of golden summer hours
+  and whispers of a summer sea.+
+
+
+  Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task,
+    Eager she wields her spade: yet loves as well
+  Rest on a friendly knee, intent to ask
+      The tale he loves to tell.
+
+  Rude spirits of the seething outer strife,
+    Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
+  Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life,
+      Empty of all delight!
+
+  Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoy
+    Hearts that by wiser talk are unbeguiled.
+  Ah, happy he who owns that tenderest joy,
+      The heart-love of a child!
+
+  Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more!
+    Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days--
+  Albeit bright memories of that sunlit shore
+      Yet haunt my dreaming gaze!
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+If--and the thing is wildly possible--the charge of writing nonsense
+were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem,
+it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in p. 18)
+
+  "Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes."
+
+In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal
+indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such
+a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of
+this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously
+inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History--I will
+take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.
+
+The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used
+to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished,
+and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it,
+that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged
+to. They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal to the Bellman
+about it--he would only refer to his Naval Code, and read out in
+pathetic tones Admiralty Instructions which none of them had ever been
+able to understand--so it generally ended in its being fastened on,
+anyhow, across the rudder. The helmsman* used to stand by with tears in
+his eyes: _he_ knew it was all wrong, but alas! Rule 42 of the Code,
+"_No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm_," had been completed by the
+Bellman himself with the words "_and the Man at the Helm shall speak to
+no one_." So remonstrance was impossible, and no steering could be done
+till the next varnishing day. During these bewildering intervals the
+ship usually sailed backwards.
+
+    [* This office was usually undertaken by the Boots, who found
+    in it a refuge from the Baker's constant complaints about the
+    insufficient blacking of his three pair of boots.]
+
+As this poem is to some extent connected with the lay of the Jabberwock,
+let me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been
+asked me, how to pronounce "slithy toves." The "i" in "slithy" is long,
+as in "writhe"; and "toves" is pronounced so as to rhyme with "groves."
+Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in
+"borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in
+"worry." Such is Human Perversity.
+
+This also seems a fitting occasion to notice the other hard words in
+that poem. Humpty-Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word
+like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.
+
+For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your
+mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will
+say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever
+so little towards "fuming," you will say "fuming-furious;" if they
+turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards "furious," you will say
+"furious-fuming;" but if you have that rarest of gifts, a perfectly
+balanced mind, you will say "frumious."
+
+Supposing that, when Pistol uttered the well-known words--
+
+  "Under which king, Bezonian? Speak or die!"
+
+Justice Shallow had felt certain that it was either William or Richard,
+but had not been able to settle which, so that he could not possibly say
+either name before the other, can it be doubted that, rather than die,
+he would have gasped out "Rilchiam!"
+
+
+
+
++Contents.+
+
+                                        Page
+
+  +Fit the First. The Landing+             3
+
+  +Fit the Second. The Bellman's Speech+  15
+
+  +Fit the Third. The Baker's Tale+       27
+
+  +Fit the Fourth. The Hunting+           37
+
+  +Fit the Fifth. The Beaver's Lesson+    47
+
+  +Fit the Sixth. The Barrister's Dream+  61
+
+  +Fit the Seventh. The Banker's Fate+    71
+
+  +Fit the Eighth. The Vanishing+         79
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+              FIT I.--THE LANDING.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
++Fit the First.+
+
+_THE LANDING._
+
+
+  "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
+    As he landed his crew with care;
+  Supporting each man on the top of the tide
+    By a finger entwined in his hair.
+
+  "Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
+    That alone should encourage the crew.
+  Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
+    What I tell you three times is true."
+
+  The crew was complete: it included a Boots--
+    A maker of Bonnets and Hoods--
+  A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes--
+    And a Broker, to value their goods.
+
+  A Billiard-marker, whose skill was immense,
+    Might perhaps have won more than his share--
+  But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense,
+    Had the whole of their cash in his care.
+
+  There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck,
+    Or would sit making lace in the bow:
+  And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck,
+    Though none of the sailors knew how.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  There was one who was famed for the number of things
+    He forgot when he entered the ship:
+  His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,
+    And the clothes he had bought for the trip.
+
+  He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,
+    With his name painted clearly on each:
+  But, since he omitted to mention the fact,
+    They were all left behind on the beach.
+
+  The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because
+    He had seven coats on when he came,
+  With three pair of boots--but the worst of it was,
+    He had wholly forgotten his name.
+
+  He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,
+    Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"
+  To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"
+    But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"
+
+  While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
+    He had different names from these:
+  His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"
+    And his enemies "Toasted-cheese."
+
+  "His form is ungainly--his intellect small--"
+    (So the Bellman would often remark)
+  "But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
+    Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."
+
+  He would joke with hyaenas, returning their stare
+    With an impudent wag of the head:
+  And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
+    "Just to keep up its spirits," he said.
+
+  He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late--
+    And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad--
+  He could only bake Bridecake--for which, I may state,
+    No materials were to be had.
+
+  The last of the crew needs especial remark,
+    Though he looked an incredible dunce:
+  He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
+    The good Bellman engaged him at once.
+
+  He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared,
+    When the ship had been sailing a week,
+  He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared,
+    And was almost too frightened to speak:
+
+  But at length he explained, in a tremulous tone,
+    There was only one Beaver on board;
+  And that was a tame one he had of his own,
+    Whose death would be deeply deplored.
+
+  The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark,
+    Protested, with tears in its eyes,
+  That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark
+    Could atone for that dismal surprise!
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  It strongly advised that the Butcher should be
+    Conveyed in a separate ship:
+  But the Bellman declared that would never agree
+    With the plans he had made for the trip:
+
+  Navigation was always a difficult art,
+    Though with only one ship and one bell:
+  And he feared he must really decline, for his part,
+    Undertaking another as well.
+
+  The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure
+    A second-hand dagger-proof coat--
+  So the Baker advised it--and next, to insure
+    Its life in some Office of note:
+
+  This the Banker suggested, and offered for hire
+    (On moderate terms), or for sale,
+  Two excellent Policies, one Against Fire,
+    And one Against Damage From Hail.
+
+  Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day,
+    Whenever the Butcher was by,
+  The Beaver kept looking the opposite way,
+    And appeared unaccountably shy.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+         FIT II.--THE BELLMAN'S SPEECH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
++Fit the Second.+
+
+_THE BELLMAN'S SPEECH._
+
+
+  The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies--
+    Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!
+  Such solemnity, too! One could see he was wise,
+    The moment one looked in his face!
+
+  He had bought a large map representing the sea,
+    Without the least vestige of land:
+  And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
+    A map they could all understand.
+
+  "What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
+    Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
+  So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
+    "They are merely conventional signs!
+
+  "Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!
+    But we've got our brave Captain to thank"
+  (So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best--
+    A perfect and absolute blank!"
+
+  [Illustration: OCEAN-CHART.
+  Latitude  NORTH  Equator
+  South Pole  Equinox  EAST  Zenith  Longitude
+  Nadir  North Pole  WEST  Meridian  Torrid Zone
+  _Scale of Miles._]
+
+  This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
+    That the Captain they trusted so well
+  Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
+    And that was to tingle his bell.
+
+  He was thoughtful and grave--but the orders he gave
+    Were enough to bewilder a crew.
+  When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!"
+    What on earth was the helmsman to do?
+
+  Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
+    A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
+  That frequently happens in tropical climes,
+    When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked."
+
+  But the principal failing occurred in the sailing,
+    And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
+  Said he _had_ hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
+    That the ship would _not_ travel due West!
+
+  But the danger was past--they had landed at last,
+    With their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags:
+  Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased with the view,
+    Which consisted of chasms and crags.
+
+  The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low,
+    And repeated in musical tone
+  Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe--
+    But the crew would do nothing but groan.
+
+  He served out some grog with a liberal hand,
+    And bade them sit down on the beach:
+  And they could not but own that their Captain looked grand,
+    As he stood and delivered his speech.
+
+  "Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears!"
+    (They were all of them fond of quotations:
+  So they drank to his health, and they gave him three cheers,
+    While he served out additional rations).
+
+  "We have sailed many months, we have sailed many weeks,
+    (Four weeks to the month you may mark),
+  But never as yet ('tis your Captain who speaks)
+    Have we caught the least glimpse of a Snark!
+
+  "We have sailed many weeks, we have sailed many days,
+    (Seven days to the week I allow),
+  But a Snark, on the which we might lovingly gaze,
+    We have never beheld till now!
+
+  "Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again
+    The five unmistakable marks
+  By which you may know, wheresoever you go,
+    The warranted genuine Snarks.
+
+  "Let us take them in order. The first is the taste,
+    Which is meagre and hollow, but crisp:
+  Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist,
+    With a flavour of Will-o-the-wisp.
+
+  "Its habit of getting up late you'll agree
+    That it carries too far, when I say
+  That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea,
+    And dines on the following day.
+
+  "The third is its slowness in taking a jest.
+    Should you happen to venture on one,
+  It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed:
+    And it always looks grave at a pun.
+
+  "The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines,
+    Which it constantly carries about,
+  And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes--
+    A sentiment open to doubt.
+
+  "The fifth is ambition. It next will be right
+    To describe each particular batch:
+  Distinguishing those that have feathers, and bite,
+    From those that have whiskers, and scratch.
+
+  "For, although common Snarks do no manner of harm,
+    Yet, I feel it my duty to say,
+  Some are Boojums--" The Bellman broke off in alarm,
+    For the Baker had fainted away.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+          FIT III.--THE BAKER'S TALE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
++Fit the Third.+
+
+_THE BAKER'S TALE._
+
+
+  They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice--
+    They roused him with mustard and cress--
+  They roused him with jam and judicious advice--
+    They set him conundrums to guess.
+
+  When at length he sat up and was able to speak,
+    His sad story he offered to tell;
+  And the Bellman cried "Silence! Not even a shriek!"
+    And excitedly tingled his bell.
+
+  There was silence supreme! Not a shriek, not a scream,
+    Scarcely even a howl or a groan,
+  As the man they called "Ho!" told his story of woe
+    In an antediluvian tone.
+
+  "My father and mother were honest, though poor--"
+    "Skip all that!" cried the Bellman in haste.
+  "If it once becomes dark, there's no chance of a Snark--
+    We have hardly a minute to waste!"
+
+  "I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears,
+    "And proceed without further remark
+  To the day when you took me aboard of your ship
+    To help you in hunting the Snark.
+
+  "A dear uncle of mine (after whom I was named)
+    Remarked, when I bade him farewell--"
+  "Oh, skip your dear uncle!" the Bellman exclaimed,
+    As he angrily tingled his bell.
+
+  "He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men,
+    "'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
+  Fetch it home by all means--you may serve it with greens,
+    And it's handy for striking a light.
+
+  "'You may seek it with thimbles--and seek it with care;
+    You may hunt it with forks and hope;
+  You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
+    You may charm it with smiles and soap--'"
+
+  ("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold
+    In a hasty parenthesis cried,
+  "That's exactly the way I have always been told
+    That the capture of Snarks should be tried!")
+
+  "'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
+    If your Snark be a Boojum! For then
+  You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
+    And never be met with again!'
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul,
+    When I think of my uncle's last words:
+  And my heart is like nothing so much as a bowl
+    Brimming over with quivering curds!
+
+  "It is this, it is this--" "We have had that before!"
+    The Bellman indignantly said.
+  And the Baker replied "Let me say it once more.
+    It is this, it is this that I dread!
+
+  "I engage with the Snark--every night after dark--
+    In a dreamy delirious fight:
+  I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes,
+    And I use it for striking a light:
+
+  "But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day,
+    In a moment (of this I am sure),
+  I shall softly and suddenly vanish away--
+    And the notion I cannot endure!"
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+             FIT IV.--THE HUNTING.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
++Fit the Fourth.+
+
+_THE HUNTING._
+
+
+  The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow.
+    "If only you'd spoken before!
+  It's excessively awkward to mention it now,
+    With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
+
+  "We should all of us grieve, as you well may believe,
+    If you never were met with again--
+  But surely, my man, when the voyage began,
+    You might have suggested it then?
+
+  "It's excessively awkward to mention it now--
+    As I think I've already remarked."
+  And the man they called "Hi!" replied, with a sigh,
+    "I informed you the day we embarked.
+
+  "You may charge me with murder--or want of sense--
+    (We are all of us weak at times):
+  But the slightest approach to a false pretence
+    Was never among my crimes!
+
+  "I said it in Hebrew--I said it in Dutch--
+    I said it in German and Greek:
+  But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
+    That English is what you speak!"
+
+  "'Tis a pitiful tale," said the Bellman, whose face
+    Had grown longer at every word:
+  "But, now that you've stated the whole of your case,
+    More debate would be simply absurd.
+
+  "The rest of my speech" (he explained to his men)
+    "You shall hear when I've leisure to speak it.
+  But the Snark is at hand, let me tell you again!
+    'Tis your glorious duty to seek it!
+
+  "To seek it with thimbles, to seek it with care;
+    To pursue it with forks and hope;
+  To threaten its life with a railway-share;
+    To charm it with smiles and soap!
+
+  "For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
+    Be caught in a commonplace way.
+  Do all that you know, and try all that you don't:
+    Not a chance must be wasted to-day!
+
+  "For England expects--I forbear to proceed:
+    'Tis a maxim tremendous, but trite:
+  And you'd best be unpacking the things that you need
+    To rig yourselves out for the fight."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Then the Banker endorsed a blank cheque (which he crossed),
+    And changed his loose silver for notes.
+  The Baker with care combed his whiskers and hair,
+    And shook the dust out of his coats.
+
+  The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade--
+    Each working the grindstone in turn:
+  But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed
+    No interest in the concern:
+
+  Though the Barrister tried to appeal to its pride,
+    And vainly proceeded to cite
+  A number of cases, in which making laces
+    Had been proved an infringement of right.
+
+  The maker of Bonnets ferociously planned
+    A novel arrangement of bows:
+  While the Billiard-marker with quivering hand
+    Was chalking the tip of his nose.
+
+  But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine,
+    With yellow kid gloves and a ruff--
+  Said he felt it exactly like going to dine,
+    Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."
+
+  "Introduce me, now there's a good fellow," he said,
+    "If we happen to meet it together!"
+  And the Bellman, sagaciously nodding his head,
+    Said "That must depend on the weather."
+
+  The Beaver went simply galumphing about,
+    At seeing the Butcher so shy:
+  And even the Baker, though stupid and stout,
+    Made an effort to wink with one eye.
+
+  "Be a man!" said the Bellman in wrath, as he heard
+    The Butcher beginning to sob.
+  "Should we meet with a Jubjub, that desperate bird,
+    We shall need all our strength for the job!"
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+          FIT V.--THE BEAVER'S LESSON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
++Fit the Fifth.+
+
+_THE BEAVER'S LESSON._
+
+
+  They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
+    They pursued it with forks and hope;
+  They threatened its life with a railway-share;
+    They charmed it with smiles and soap.
+
+  Then the Butcher contrived an ingenious plan
+    For making a separate sally;
+  And had fixed on a spot unfrequented by man,
+    A dismal and desolate valley.
+
+  But the very same plan to the Beaver occurred:
+    It had chosen the very same place:
+  Yet neither betrayed, by a sign or a word,
+    The disgust that appeared in his face.
+
+  Each thought he was thinking of nothing but "Snark"
+    And the glorious work of the day;
+  And each tried to pretend that he did not remark
+    That the other was going that way.
+
+  But the valley grew narrow and narrower still,
+    And the evening got darker and colder,
+  Till (merely from nervousness, not from goodwill)
+    They marched along shoulder to shoulder.
+
+  Then a scream, shrill and high, rent the shuddering sky,
+    And they knew that some danger was near:
+  The Beaver turned pale to the tip of its tail,
+    And even the Butcher felt queer.
+
+  He thought of his childhood, left far far behind--
+    That blissful and innocent state--
+  The sound so exactly recalled to his mind
+    A pencil that squeaks on a slate!
+
+  "'Tis the voice of the Jubjub!" he suddenly cried.
+    (This man, that they used to call "Dunce.")
+  "As the Bellman would tell you," he added with pride,
+    "I have uttered that sentiment once.
+
+  "'Tis the note of the Jubjub! Keep count, I entreat;
+    You will find I have told it you twice.
+  'Tis the song of the Jubjub! The proof is complete,
+    If only I've stated it thrice."
+
+  The Beaver had counted with scrupulous care,
+    Attending to every word:
+  But it fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair,
+    When the third repetition occurred.
+
+  It felt that, in spite of all possible pains,
+    It had somehow contrived to lose count,
+  And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains
+    By reckoning up the amount.
+
+  "Two added to one--if that could but be done,"
+    It said, "with one's fingers and thumbs!"
+  Recollecting with tears how, in earlier years,
+    It had taken no pains with its sums.
+
+  "The thing can be done," said the Butcher, "I think.
+    The thing must be done, I am sure.
+  The thing shall be done! Bring me paper and ink,
+    The best there is time to procure."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens,
+    And ink in unfailing supplies:
+  While strange creepy creatures came out of their dens,
+    And watched them with wondering eyes.
+
+  So engrossed was the Butcher, he heeded them not,
+    As he wrote with a pen in each hand,
+  And explained all the while in a popular style
+    Which the Beaver could well understand.
+
+  "Taking Three as the subject to reason about--
+    A convenient number to state--
+  We add Seven, and Ten, and then multiply out
+    By One Thousand diminished by Eight.
+
+  "The result we proceed to divide, as you see,
+    By Nine Hundred and Ninety and Two:
+  Then subtract Seventeen, and the answer must be
+    Exactly and perfectly true.
+
+  "The method employed I would gladly explain,
+    While I have it so clear in my head,
+  If I had but the time and you had but the brain--
+    But much yet remains to be said.
+
+  "In one moment I've seen what has hitherto been
+    Enveloped in absolute mystery,
+  And without extra charge I will give you at large
+    A Lesson in Natural History."
+
+  In his genial way he proceeded to say
+    (Forgetting all laws of propriety,
+  And that giving instruction, without introduction,
+    Would have caused quite a thrill in Society),
+
+  "As to temper the Jubjub's a desperate bird,
+    Since it lives in perpetual passion:
+  Its taste in costume is entirely absurd--
+    It is ages ahead of the fashion:
+
+  "But it knows any friend it has met once before:
+    It never will look at a bribe:
+  And in charity-meetings it stands at the door,
+    And collects--though it does not subscribe.
+
+  "Its flavour when cooked is more exquisite far
+    Than mutton, or oysters, or eggs:
+  (Some think it keeps best in an ivory jar,
+    And some, in mahogany kegs:)
+
+  "You boil it in sawdust: you salt it in glue:
+    You condense it with locusts and tape:
+  Still keeping one principal object in view--
+    To preserve its symmetrical shape."
+
+  The Butcher would gladly have talked till next day,
+    But he felt that the Lesson must end,
+  And he wept with delight in attempting to say
+    He considered the Beaver his friend.
+
+  While the Beaver confessed, with affectionate looks
+    More eloquent even than tears,
+  It had learned in ten minutes far more than all books
+    Would have taught it in seventy years.
+
+  They returned hand-in-hand, and the Bellman, unmanned
+    (For a moment) with noble emotion,
+  Said "This amply repays all the wearisome days
+    We have spent on the billowy ocean!"
+
+  Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became,
+    Have seldom if ever been known;
+  In winter or summer, 'twas always the same--
+    You could never meet either alone.
+
+  And when quarrels arose--as one frequently finds
+    Quarrels will, spite of every endeavour--
+  The song of the Jubjub recurred to their minds,
+    And cemented their friendship for ever!
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+        FIT VI.--THE BARRISTER'S DREAM.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
++Fit the Sixth.+
+
+_THE BARRISTER'S DREAM._
+
+
+  They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
+    They pursued it with forks and hope;
+  They threatened its life with a railway-share;
+    They charmed it with smiles and soap.
+
+  But the Barrister, weary of proving in vain
+    That the Beaver's lace-making was wrong,
+  Fell asleep, and in dreams saw the creature quite plain
+    That his fancy had dwelt on so long.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court,
+    Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye,
+  Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig
+    On the charge of deserting its sty.
+
+  The Witnesses proved, without error or flaw,
+    That the sty was deserted when found:
+  And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law
+    In a soft under-current of sound.
+
+  The indictment had never been clearly expressed,
+    And it seemed that the Snark had begun,
+  And had spoken three hours, before any one guessed
+    What the pig was supposed to have done.
+
+  The Jury had each formed a different view
+    (Long before the indictment was read),
+  And they all spoke at once, so that none of them knew
+    One word that the others had said.
+
+  "You must know--" said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed "Fudge!
+    That statute is obsolete quite!
+  Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends
+    On an ancient manorial right.
+
+  "In the matter of Treason the pig would appear
+    To have aided, but scarcely abetted:
+  While the charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear,
+    If you grant the plea 'never indebted.'
+
+  "The fact of Desertion I will not dispute:
+    But its guilt, as I trust, is removed
+  (So far as relates to the costs of this suit)
+    By the Alibi which has been proved.
+
+  "My poor client's fate now depends on your votes."
+    Here the speaker sat down in his place,
+  And directed the Judge to refer to his notes
+    And briefly to sum up the case.
+
+  But the Judge said he never had summed up before;
+    So the Snark undertook it instead,
+  And summed it so well that it came to far more
+    Than the Witnesses ever had said!
+
+  When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined,
+    As the word was so puzzling to spell;
+  But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind
+    Undertaking that duty as well.
+
+  So the Snark found the verdict, although, as it owned,
+    It was spent with the toils of the day:
+  When it said the word "GUILTY!" the Jury all groaned,
+    And some of them fainted away.
+
+  Then the Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quite
+    Too nervous to utter a word:
+  When it rose to its feet, there was silence like night,
+    And the fall of a pin might be heard.
+
+  "Transportation for life" was the sentence it gave,
+    "And _then_ to be fined forty pound."
+  The Jury all cheered, though the Judge said he feared
+    That the phrase was not legally sound.
+
+  But their wild exultation was suddenly checked
+    When the jailer informed them, with tears,
+  Such a sentence would have not the slightest effect,
+    As the pig had been dead for some years.
+
+  The Judge left the Court, looking deeply disgusted:
+    But the Snark, though a little aghast,
+  As the lawyer to whom the defence was intrusted,
+    Went bellowing on to the last.
+
+  Thus the Barrister dreamed, while the bellowing seemed
+    To grow every moment more clear:
+  Till he woke to the knell of a furious bell,
+    Which the Bellman rang close at his ear.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+          FIT VII.--THE BANKER'S FATE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
++Fit the Seventh.+
+
+_THE BANKER'S FATE._
+
+
+  They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
+    They pursued it with forks and hope;
+  They threatened its life with a railway-share;
+    They charmed it with smiles and soap.
+
+  And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
+    It was matter for general remark,
+  Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
+    In his zeal to discover the Snark.
+
+  But while he was seeking with thimbles and care,
+    A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh
+  And grabbed at the Banker, who shrieked in despair,
+    For he knew it was useless to fly.
+
+  He offered large discount--he offered a cheque
+    (Drawn "to bearer") for seven-pounds-ten:
+  But the Bandersnatch merely extended its neck
+    And grabbed at the Banker again.
+
+  Without rest or pause--while those frumious jaws
+    Went savagely snapping around--
+  He skipped and he hopped, and he floundered and flopped,
+    Till fainting he fell to the ground.
+
+  The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
+    Led on by that fear-stricken yell:
+  And the Bellman remarked "It is just as I feared!"
+    And solemnly tolled on his bell.
+
+  He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace
+    The least likeness to what he had been:
+  While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white--
+    A wonderful thing to be seen!
+
+  To the horror of all who were present that day.
+    He uprose in full evening dress,
+  And with senseless grimaces endeavoured to say
+    What his tongue could no longer express.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Down he sank in a chair--ran his hands through his hair--
+    And chanted in mimsiest tones
+  Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity,
+    While he rattled a couple of bones.
+
+  "Leave him here to his fate--it is getting so late!"
+    The Bellman exclaimed in a fright.
+  "We have lost half the day. Any further delay,
+    And we sha'n't catch a Snark before night!"
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+           FIT VIII.--THE VANISHING.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
++Fit the Eighth.+
+
+_THE VANISHING._
+
+
+  They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
+    They pursued it with forks and hope;
+  They threatened its life with a railway-share;
+    They charmed it with smiles and soap.
+
+  They shuddered to think that the chase might fail,
+    And the Beaver, excited at last,
+  Went bounding along on the tip of its tail,
+    For the daylight was nearly past.
+
+  "There is Thingumbob shouting!" the Bellman said.
+    "He is shouting like mad, only hark!
+  He is waving his hands, he is wagging his head,
+    He has certainly found a Snark!"
+
+  They gazed in delight, while the Butcher exclaimed
+    "He was always a desperate wag!"
+  They beheld him--their Baker--their hero unnamed--
+    On the top of a neighbouring crag,
+
+  Erect and sublime, for one moment of time.
+    In the next, that wild figure they saw
+  (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm,
+    While they waited and listened in awe.
+
+  "It's a Snark!" was the sound that first came to their ears,
+    And seemed almost too good to be true.
+  Then followed a torrent of laughter and cheers:
+    Then the ominous words "It's a Boo-"
+
+  Then, silence. Some fancied they heard in the air
+    A weary and wandering sigh
+  That sounded like "-jum!" but the others declare
+    It was only a breeze that went by.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  They hunted till darkness came on, but they found
+    Not a button, or feather, or mark,
+  By which they could tell that they stood on the ground
+    Where the Baker had met with the Snark.
+
+  In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
+    In the midst of his laughter and glee,
+  He had softly and suddenly vanished away--
+    For the Snark _was_ a Boojum, you see.
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
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+
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