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Description Ninth of Henry Holiday's original ilustrations to "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.
Date Originally 1876, this edition 1931.
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The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll, MacMillan and Co, Limited, St. Martin's Street, London, 1931.

From Fit the Seventh: The Banker's Fate. The Banker is sitting in a chair and holding bone castanets. Kevin Sweeney, 2008. p 86</ref> He is attacked by a Bandersnatch, and goes insane. However, unlike the normal results of terror, which might cause someone to go white as a sheet in the face:

He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace
    The least likeness to what he had been:
While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white--
    A wonderful thing to be seen!
 
 ...
 
Down he sank in his chair--ran his hands through his hair--
    And chanted in mimsiest tones
Wrds whose utter inanity proved his insanity,
    While he rattled a couple of bones.
Author Henry Holiday (1839-1927) after Lewis Carroll [Real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1896)
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