# Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 5

- By: Henry Holiday (1839-1927) after Lewis Carroll \[Real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson\] (1832-1896)
- Date: Originally 1876, this edition 1931.
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll, MacMillan and Co, Limited, St. Martin's Street, London, 1931.
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Carroll_-_Henry_Holiday_-_Hunting_of_the_Snark_-_Plate_5.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
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Fifth of Henry Holiday's original ilustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.

From Fit the Third: The Baker's Tale. The Baker says his uncle told him that:

"But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! For then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!" See also Plate 10.