`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought -So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
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.
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder how many miles
I have fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the
centre of the earth. Let me see; that would be four thousand miles down, I think — "
(for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her
knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over)
" — yes, that's about the right distance — but the I wonder what Latitude or
Longitude I've got to?" (Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or
Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)" [8]