# Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 7

- 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_7.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
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- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Seventh of Henry Holiday's original ilustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.

From Fit the Fifth: The Beaver's Lesson. The Butcher and Beaver hear the song of the Jubjub bird, and this causes the Butcher to be reminded of his childhood, and begin a lengthy lesson to he Beaver. Afterwards, they become friends. As for the strange creatures:

The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens, And ink in unfailing supplies: While strange creepy creatures came out of their dens, And watched them with wondering eyes.

So engrossed was the Butcher, the heeded them not, As he wrote with a pen in each hand, And explained all the while in a popular style Which the Beaver could well understand. The rest of the lesson is pretty much complete nonsense.