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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
775
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 eflfect,
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.

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​776 VERSE
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 hfe 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.

"How are you feeling", "How are you feeling", "How are you feeling" ...​asked the roving eye and the roving eye and the roving eye... From a different plane (geometric not the air one) Another camera could see what appeared to be stamens of another colour turned upside down. No! Closely examined they turned out to be bulbuous microphones of reporters. The object(mummy...the egyptian kind) for some strange reason remembered the footwear of the thugs  that kicked it in. It  emanated "*!#*** U". The mikes construed "Fine thank you".