# Further nonsense verse and prose

Author: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898; Reed, Langford, 1889-1954 [Editor]; Bateman, H. M. (Henry Mayo), 1887-1970 [Illustrator]

Genre: Humorous stories, English

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77627

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Further+nonsense+verse+and+prose+Carroll&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The sultry glare of noon was already giving place to the cool of a cloudless evening, and the lulled ocean was washing against the Pier with a low murmur, suggestive to poetical minds of the kindred ideas of motion and lotion, when two travellers might have been seen, by such as chose to look that way, approaching the secluded town of Whitby by one of those headlong paths, dignified by the name of road, which serve as entrances into the place, and which were originally constructed, it is supposed, on the somewhat fantastic model of pipes running into a water-butt. The elder of the two was a sallow and careworn man; his features were adorned with what had been often at a distance mistaken...

## Chapters

- [Chapter One)! “it’s as much as his life is worth.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/further-nonsense-verse-and-prose-77627/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/further-nonsense-verse-and-prose-77627/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/further-nonsense-verse-and-prose-77627/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/further-nonsense-verse-and-prose-77627/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/further-nonsense-verse-and-prose-77627/chapters/4/index.md)