Word: gyred
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...continued his magazine, and a copy is shown in which is written the first stanza of the "Jabberwock," which was afterwards expanded into the book, "Through the Looking Glass." With the stanza is a key to the meanings of the unintelligible words: "Twas bryllyg, and the slythy toves, Did gyre and gymble in the Wabe." The original drawings by John Tennie for the illustrations of the first editions of "Alice in Wonderland," and "Though the Looking Glass," are also exhibited, as well as a first edition of the former with a frontispiece colored by Tennie...