“It’s a Bo-o-o-o-o-o-o-tcher!”

  The assumption which states that “It’s a Boo-…” applies to Boots* seems to be plausible, but is based on written word “Boots”, still vocally “oo” means a long “u” and therefore in this case “Boots” has no priority over “Butcher”. It probably was indeed: “It’s a Bo-o-o-o-o-o-o-tcher!” I would rather believe in this interpretation, because in the poem, Butcher was described in great detail, and acted as one of the front characters, unlike Boots, who was just a “chorus member”. Actually, we even don’t know who Boots is at all.

*Larry Shaw The Baker Murder case, cit. by The Annotated Snark by Martin Gardner.  


The portrait of Butcher from the Oleg Lipchenko illustrations to the Hunting Of The Snark 

CHAPTER VI Pig and Pepper / Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

... The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup.

'There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to herself, as well as she could for sneezing.

There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause. The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

For my Russian friends

Наконец собрался сделать зеркало сайта на русском. Вот уже пару страничек выложил здесь. Ну и соответственно в BLOGе буду теперь и по-русски писать. Пока что "новости" (в кавычках, потому, что уже полтора месяца новостям) такие: книга наконец увидела свет. Кто не в курсе, это "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Льюиса Кэрролла (на языке оригинала) с моими иллюстрациями, дизайном, версткой и т.п. Более подробно здесь.