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beware the Jabberwock!

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"Jabberwocky," as performed by the Muppets! We have a bin of pop-up books that we let the kids play with while they're in the library, and yesterday as I was passing I noticed a new one, Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwock," (which for those of you who don't know, is a bit of verse taken from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There) . Anyone, as it's a rainy and dark day it feels right to share this weird and kinda creepy poem. I also happened upon the Muppet version...those Muppets, what don't they do?! "Jabberwocky" `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thou...