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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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And feels himself, like one in sleep, Glide swiftly down again,A helpless weight, from steep to steep,Till, with a headlong giddy sweep. He drops upon the plain-So I, that had resolved to bring Conviction to a ghost,And found it quite a different thingFrom any human arguing. •^5^ Yet dared not quit my post 46 PHANTASMAGORIA. But, keeping still the end in view To which I hoped to come,I strove to prove the matter trueBy putting everything I knewInto an axiom : Commencing every single phraseWith therefore or because, I blindly reeled, a hundred ways, About the syllogistic maze, Unconscious where I was. Quoth he Thats regular clap-trap:Dont bluster any more. Now do be cool and take a nap ! Such a ridiculous old chapWas never seen before ! You re like a man I used to meet,Who got one day so furiousIn arguing, the simple heatScorched both his slippers off his feet !I said Thats very curious!
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SCORCHED BOTH HIS SLIPPERS OFF HIS FEET 48 PHANTASMAGOKIA. Well, it is curious, I agree, And sounds perhaps like fibs:But still its true as true can be—As sure as your name s Tibbs, said he.1 said My name s not Tibbs. ^^Not Tibbs! he cried—his tone became A shade or two less hearty—* Why, no, said I. My proper nameIs Tibbels—■ * Tibbets ? Aye, the same.*Why, then youre not the party! With that he struck the board a blowThat shivered half the glasses. Why couldnt you have told me so Three quarters of an hour ago.You prince of all the asses ? To walk four miles through mud and rain,To spend the night in smoking. And then to find that its in vain— And I ve to do it all again—•Its really too provoking ! DYSCOMFYTURE. 49

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