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`Twas brillig , and the slithy toves   Did gyre and gimble in the wabe : All mimsy were the borogoves ,   And the mome raths outgrabe . "Beware the Jabberwock , my son!   The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun   The frumious Bandersnatch !"
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`Twasbrillig, and the slithytoves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves, And the momerathsoutgrabe. • "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumiousBandersnatch!" • He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought --So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. • And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! • One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. • "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. • Twasbrillig, and the slithytoves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves, And the momerathsoutgrabe.
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder how many miles I have fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see; that would be four thousand miles down, I think — " (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) " — yes, that's about the right distance — but the I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?" (Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)" [8]