Beware the Jubjub bird , and shun The frumious Bandersnatch ! ' He took his vorpal sword in hand : Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came ! One , two ! One , two ! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack ! He left it dead , and with its head He went galumphing back . ` And hast thou slain the Jabberwock ? Come to my arms , my beamish boy ! O frabjous day ! Callooh ! Callay ! ' He chortled in his joy . 'T was brillig , and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves , And the mome raths outgrabe . ` It seems very pretty , ' she said when she had finished it , ` but it 's RATHER hard to understand ! ' -LRB- You see she did n't like to confess , even to herself , that she could n't make it out at all . -RRB- ` Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas -- only I do n't exactly know what they are ! However , SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING : that 's clear , at any rate -- ' ` But oh ! ' thought Alice , suddenly jumping up , ` if I do n't make haste I shall have to go back through the Looking-glass , before I 've seen what the rest of the house is like ! Let 's have a look at the garden first ! '
She was out of the room in a moment , and ran down stairs -- or , at least , it was n't exactly running , but a new invention of hers for getting down stairs quickly and easily , as XXXXX said to herself .
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