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Title: The Best Nonsense Verses

Author: Various

Editor: Josephine Dodge Daskam

Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20353]

Language: English

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The Best Nonsense
Verses, Chosen by
Josephine Dodge Daskam

EVANSTON
WILLIAM S. LORD
1902

Copyright 1901
WILLIAM S. LORD

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The publisher desires to acknowledge the courtesy of authors and
publishers in granting permission to reprint the verses contained in
this book. To Mr. Guy Wetmore Carryl, whose "Fables for the Frivolous"
are published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers; to Mr. Charles E. Carryl,
whose verses appeared originally in _St. Nicholas_; to Mr. Oliver
Herford, whose "Child's Primer of Natural History" is published by
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons; to the same author for the selection
from "Alphabet of Celebrities," published by Messrs. Small, Maynard &
Co.; and Messrs. Harper & Brothers, the publishers of du Maurier's "A
Legend of Camelot;" and to Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., who publish an
edition of Lear's Nonsense Books.

CONTENTS

Page

Father William Lewis Carroll 7

The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll 9

The Hunting of the Snark, Extracts Lewis Carroll 14

Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll 19

The Jumblies Edward Lear 21

The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo Edward Lear 25

Nonsense Verses Edward Lear 30

Gentle Alice Brown W.S. Gilbert 33

Emily, John, James and I W.S. Gilbert 37

Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen W.S. Gilbert 41

The Sycophantic Fox and the Gull