But answer came there none - / And this was scarcely odd because / They'd eaten every one.

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.

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.

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to