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Seventh of Henry Holiday's original illustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.
From Fit the Fifth: The Beaver's Lesson. The Butcher and Beaver hear the song of the Jubjub bird, and this causes the Butcher to be reminded of his childhood, and begin a lengthy lesson to the Beaver. Afterwards, they become friends. As for the strange creatures:
- 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, the 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.
The rest of the lesson is pretty much complete nonsense.