THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK

Lewis Carroll

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 1.2




THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
an Agony in Eight Fits
by
Lewis Carroll



PREFACE

If-and the thing is wildly possible-the charge of writing nonsense
were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive
poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in p.4)

"Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes."

In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal
indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of
such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose
of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously
inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History--I will
take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened.