The Butcher and the Beaver become close friends

The Butcher and the Beaver become close friends, an illustration in 

Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, Artits' Choice Editions, 2006.

The Text:

102

They returned hand-in-hand, and the Bellman, unmanned

 (For a moment) with noble emotion,

 Said "This amply repays all the wearisome days

 We have spent on the billowy ocean!"

 103

Such friends, as the Beaver and Butcher became,

 Have seldom if ever been known;

 In winter or summer, 'twas always the same--

 You could never meet either alone.

 104

And when quarrels arose--as one frequently finds

 Quarrels will, spite of every endeavor--

 The song of the Jubjub recurred to their minds,

 And cemented their friendship for ever!