Identifier: reason00carrrhymerich (find matches)
Title: Rhyme? and reason?
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928, illus Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927, illus
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Publisher: New York, Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s faith ! Constructed by whatever law, So poor a job I never saw,As I m a living A\ laith ! What a re-markable cigar! How much are they a dozen?I growled No matter what they are !You re getting as familiar As if you were my cousin ! Now thats a thing / 7viU not stand. And so I tell you flat. Aha, said he, ■ we re getting grand !(Taking a bottle in his hand) Ill soon arrange for that! And here he took a careful aim, And gaily cried Here goes ! I tried to dodge it as it came.But somehow caught it, all the same,Exactly on my nose. SCARMOGES. 2 R And I remember nothing more That I can clearly fix,Till I was sittmg on the floor,Repeating Two and five are four^ But Jive and two are six. What really passed I never learned. Nor guessed: I only knowThat, when at last my sense returned.The lamp, neglected, dimly burned— The fire was getting low— Through driving mists I seemed to seeA Thing that smirked and smiled; And found that he was giving me A lesson in Biography,As if I were a child.
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Oh, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we !Each seated on his favourite post,We chumped and chawed the butteredtoastThey gave us for our tea. ^. That story is in print! I cried.Dont say its not, because H YS NO UK \ 7 UKE. 2 7 Its known as well as Bradshaws Guide! (The Ghost uneasily replied He hardly thought it was). It s not in Nursery Rhymes ? And yet I almost think it is— Three little Ghosteses were set* On posteses, you know, and ate Their buttered toasteses. * I have the book; so, if you doubt it— I turned to search the shelf.*r3ont stir! he cried. Well do without it:I now remember all about it ; I wrote the thing myself. * It came out in a Monthly/ or At least my agent said it did :Some literary swell, who sawIt, thought it seemed adapted for The Magazine he edited. My father was a Brownie, Sir;My mother was a Pairy. 2 8 PHANTASMA GORIA. The notion had occurred to her,The children would be happier,If they were taught to vary. The notion soon became a craze; And, wh

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