Brother And Sister
“SISTER,
sister,
go
to
bed!
Go
and
rest
your
weary
head.”
Thus
the
prudent
brother
said.
“Do
you
want
a
battered
hide,
Or
scratches
to
your
face
applied?”
Thus
his
sister
calm
replied.
“Sister,
do
not
raise
my
wrath.
I’d
make
you
into
mutton
broth
As
easily
as
kill
a
moth”
The
sister
raised
her
beaming
eye
And
looked
on
him
indignantly
And
sternly
answered,
“Only
try!”
Off
to
the
cook
he
quickly
ran.
“Dear
Cook,
please
lend
a
frying-pan
To
me
as
quickly
as
you
can.”
And
wherefore
should
I
lend
it
you?”
“The
reason,
Cook,
is
plain
to
view.
I
wish
to
make
an
Irish
stew.”
“What
meat
is
in
that
stew
to
go?”
“My
sister’ll
be
the
contents!”
“Oh”
“You’ll
lend
the
pan
to
me,
Cook?”
“No!”
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, (born January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England—died January 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey), English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is nonsense literature of the highest order.