And as in uffish thought we stood The mersey ones with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood And burbled as they came! |
And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! |
Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish. |