Jones, the tobacco-jar!
Here’s to thee, Bacon!
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known as Lewis Carroll, though during his lifetime, the author of Alice was extremely careful to preserve a decided distinction between the College Don and the writer of nonsense.
Lewis Carroll was the first to produce coherent humor in the form of sheer nonsense, and his work, often imitated, has never been equaled.
Beside the Alice books he wrote several volumes only a degree less wise and witty in the nonsense vein.
But few selections can be given.
JABBERWOCKY
(From Through the Looking-Glass)
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,