Jawbreaker/Jabberwocky
Jul. 8th, 2004 05:36 pmMany years ago, I knew a guy who had run Jabberwocky through a spell checker, just to see what he would get. I thought I'd do the same.
JAWBREAKER
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas billing, and the smithy toes
Did Gare and gamble in the wage:
All missy were the brogues,
And the mime rats outrage.
"Beware the Jawbreaker, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujube bird, and shun
The furious Bounteousness!"
He took his viral sword in hand:
Long time the manhole foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tutu tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in offish thought he stood,
The Jawbreaker, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffing through the tulle wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The viral blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, have thou slain the Jawbreaker?
Come to my arms, my blemish boy!
O Francois day! Callow! Calla!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas billing, and the smithy toes
Did gare and gamble in the wage;
All missy were the brogues,
And the mime rats outrage.
JAWBREAKER
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas billing, and the smithy toes
Did Gare and gamble in the wage:
All missy were the brogues,
And the mime rats outrage.
"Beware the Jawbreaker, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujube bird, and shun
The furious Bounteousness!"
He took his viral sword in hand:
Long time the manhole foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tutu tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in offish thought he stood,
The Jawbreaker, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffing through the tulle wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The viral blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, have thou slain the Jawbreaker?
Come to my arms, my blemish boy!
O Francois day! Callow! Calla!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas billing, and the smithy toes
Did gare and gamble in the wage;
All missy were the brogues,
And the mime rats outrage.