Fishes in bed and Humpty Dumpty with a corkscrew -
two illustrations by JVL in Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There,
Artists' Choice Editions, 2011, pages 77 and 104
The episode in the text:
Then some one came to me and said,
"The
little fishes are in bed."
I said to him, I said it plain,
"Then you
must wake them up again."
I said it very loud and clear;
I went and
shouted in his ear.'
'But he was very stiff and proud;
He said
"You needn't shout so loud!"
And he was very proud and stiff;
He said
"I'd go and wake them, if -- "
I took a corkscrew from the shelf:
I went to
wake them up myself.
And when I found the door was locked,
I pulled
and pushed and kicked and knocked.
And when I found the door was shut,
I tried to
turn the handle, but -- '
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