# Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 10

- 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_10.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)

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

From Fit the Eighth: The Vanishing

"It's a Snark!" was the sound that first came to their ears, And it seemed almost too good to be true. Then followed a torrent of laughter and cheers: Then the ominous words "It's a Boo--"

Then silence. Some fancied they heard in the air A weary and wandering sigh That sounded like "--jum!" but the others declare It was only a breeze that went by.

They hunted till darkness came on, but they found Not a button, or feather, or mark, By which they could tell that they stood on the ground Where the Baker had met with the Snark.

In the midst of the word he was trying to say In the midst of his laughter and glee, He had softly and suddenly vanished away-- For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.