JAZZERWOCKY.

(With apologies to Lewis Carroll.)

'Twas grillig, and the Jazzlewags

Did glomp and scrimble o'er the board;

All gladsome were their dazzlerags,

And the loud Nigs uproared.

"Beware the Tickle Trot, my son,

The feet that twink, the hands that clug;

Beware the Shimmy Shake and shun

The thrustful Bunny Hug."

He put his pumpsious shoon on foot,

He bent his knees to slithe and sprawl,

Till, fagged and flausted by disdoot,

He brooded by the wall.

And, as in broody ease he lay,

The Jazzerwock, with shoulders bare,

Came swhiffling through the juggly fray

And grapped him by the hair.

One, two! One, two! And through and through

The prancing maze they reeled and pressed,

Till both his feet ignored the beat

And woggled with the best.

"And hast thou learnt at last to jazz?

Come take my arm, my clomplish boy;"

O hectic day! Cheero! Cheeray!

He chwinckled in his joy.

'Twas grillig, and the Jazzlewags

Did glomp and scrimble o'er the board;

All gladsome were their dazzlerags,

And the loud Nigs uproared.