And always settled on my nose!
In those two delightful volumes, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass, ‘Lewis Carroll’ gives us some capital travesties. Mr Southey’s poem beginning ‘“You are old, Father William,” the young man said,’ is so familiar, that every reader will appreciate the point of the burlesque, without needing the original before him:
‘You are old, Father William,’ the young man said,
‘And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head—
Do you think at your age it is right?’
‘In my youth,’ Father William replied to his son,
‘I thought it might injure the brain;
But now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.’