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Title: Rhyme? and reason?
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928, illus Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927, illus
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Publisher: New York, Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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If he should say Wfoio came yon hete V (The way that you began, Sir,)In such a case your course is clear— On tJie bafs back, my lit He dca?-! Is the appropriate answer. If after this he says no more, Youd best perhaps curtail yourExertions—go and shake the door,And then, if he begins to snore, Youll know the things a failure. 12 PHANTASMAGORIA. By day, if be should be alone— At home or on a walk—You merely give a hollow groan,To indicate the kind of toneIn which you mean to talk. But if you find him with his friends. The thing is rather harder.In such a case success dependsOn picking up some candle-ends,Or butter, in the larder. • With this you make a kind of slidj (It answers best with suet),On which you must contrive to glide,And swing yourself from side to side—One soon learns how to do it. ^The Second tells us what is right In ceremonious calls :—^First hum a blue or cri?nson lig/ir*(A thing I quite forgot to-night), The?i scratch the door or wal/s
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AND SWING VOlKSKLF FROM SIDE TO SIDE 14 PHANTASM A GORIA. 1 said You U visit here no more, If you attempt the Guy.I 11 liave no bonfires on my floor—And, as for scratching at the door, I d like to see you try ! The Third was written to protect The interests of the Victin^,And tells us, as I recollect,To t?eat him with a grave respect^ A/id not to contradict himi Thats plain, said I, as Tare and Tret, To any comprehension :I only wish some Ghosts I ve metWould not so constantly forget The maxim that you mention ! Perhaps, he said, ^^you first transgressed The laws of hospitality :All Ghosts instinctively detestThe Man that fails to treat his guest With proper cordiality. BYS FVVE RULES.

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