Re: sucking their cane-heads

Don Petter <don.petter*remove*@suk.sas.com> wrote:

At present, I can't find my copy of the book to check this, but I
think there is a reference to the subject in 'The Annotated Snark', by
Martin Gardner. He explains the presence, in one of Henry Holiday's
illustrations for Carroll's book, of a character holding his cane head
to his lips as being an allusion to an affected habit prevalent among
the young blades of the time.

Has anyone a copy to check my recollection?

It is Carrol himself (the man who has forgotten his name)
<http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/carroll/lewis/snark/fit1.html>
in the very first fit,
(second illustration)

Jan

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