'Candle-ends and Toasted Cheese'

'Candle-ends and Toasted Cheese', an illustration by JVL, in Lewis Carroll's 

The Hunting of the Snark, Artists' Choice Editions, 2006.

The Text:

6

 There was one who was famed for the number of things

 He forgot when he entered the ship:

 His umbrella, his watch, all his jewels and rings,

 And the clothes he had bought for the trip.

 7

He had forty-two boxes, all carefully packed,

 With his name painted clearly on each:

 But, since he omitted to mention the fact,

 They were all left behind on the beach.

 8

The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because

 He had seven coats on when he came,

 With three pairs of boots--but the worst of it was,

 He had wholly forgotten his name.

 9

He would answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry,

 Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!"

 To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!"

 But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!"

 10

While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,

 He had different names from these:

 His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"

 And his enemies "Toasted-cheese."

11

 "His form in ungainly--his intellect small--"

 (So the Bellman would often remark)

 "But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,

 Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."

 12

He would joke with hyenas, returning their stare

 With an impudent wag of the head:

 And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,

 "Just to keep up its spirits," he said.

 13

He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late--

 And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad--

 He could only bake Bridecake--for which, I may state,

 No materials were to be had.