Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gire and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogroves and the momewraths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock my son. The jaws that bite, the claws that catch. 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 wiffling through the tulgy wood. And it burbuld as it came.​