RHYME?AND REASON?

“UPON A BATTLEMENT.” [See p. 30.

RHYME?AND REASON?

BY

LEWIS CARROLL

WITH SIXTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR B. FROST AND NINE BY HENRY HOLIDAY

I have had nor rhyme nor reason

PRICE SEVEN SHILLINGS London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1883 [All Rights Reserved]

London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor BREAD STREET HILL, E.C.

Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea.

[Of the following poems, Echoes, A Game of Fives, the last three of the Four Riddles, and Fame’s Penny-Trumpet, are here published for the first time. The others have all appeared before, as have also the illustrations to The Hunting of the Snark.]

CONTENTS.

[Pg 1]

CANTO I.

The Trystyng.

[Pg 2]

[Pg 7]

“IN CAVERNS BY THE WATER-SIDE”

[Pg 8]

[Pg 9]

[Pg 10]

CANTO II.

Hys Fyve Rules.

[Pg 11]

[Pg 12]

[Pg 13]

“AND SWING YOURSELF FROM SIDE TO SIDE”

[Pg 14]

[Pg 15]

[Pg 18]

CANTO III.

Scarmoges.

[Pg 19]

[Pg 21]

“AND HERE IT TOOK THE FORM OF THIRST”

[Pg 22]

[Pg 26]

CANTO IV.

Hys Nouryture.

[Pg 32]

[Pg 34]

CANTO V.

Byckerment.

[Pg 39]

“HE GOES ABOUT AND SITS ON FOLK”

[Pg 40]

[Pg 44]

CANTO VI.

Dyscomfyture.

[Pg 45]

[Pg 46]

[Pg 47]

“SCORCHED BOTH HIS SLIPPERS OFF HIS FEET”

[Pg 48]

[Pg 49]

[Pg 53]

CANTO VII.

Sad Souvenaunce.

[Pg 55]

“AND TIBBS WILL HAVE THE BEST OF IT”

[Pg 56]

[Pg 58]