"It was so."
"How could you tell! Did you buy it for me?"
"No, but I suppose..."
"Oh you suppose," Tweedledee stomped, obviously enraged. "It was perfectly new!" He
clammered around in a circle, throwing his arms in the air and muttering. Tweedledum watched
unbearingly. "Another battle won't settle this, you know," he called half-heartedly. But it fell on deaf
ears as Tweedledee stalked away. Standing slowly and rubbing the dirt from his trousers,
Tweedledum followed him. At that moment an awful squeal emmitted from a nearby hill. Two
JubJub birds fluttered awkwardly towards them exlaiming in high pitched voices, "The
Jabberwocky!" A few more animals rushed from the hill but said nothing, although they scuttled by
with frightened looks. Tweedledee and Tweedledum exchanged glances and then
plodded carefully towards the hill. Perched precariously ontop was a sundial, but no sign of any
Jabberwocky. They studied the surroundings and found that in any case, there were signs of
rather carnivorous toves. Nothing but natural selection. Possibly. Large holes filled with the
crunched skeletons of smaller mammals suggested as such.
"Let's not bother with it anymore," came Tweedledum in a forcefully calm tone.
"What if we should turn and end up as lunch?" reproached Tweedledee.
"Oh hush," snapped Tweedeldum. "Lunch has already been finished."
"We'll be on our way," He called out behind them. Just for safe measure.
As they turned a voice
rang out,
"Beware the
Jabberwocky my son!
The jaws that bite, the
claws that catch!""Ru..ru..Rubbish,"
cried out the frightened Tweedledee. "You won't...scare us"
The two trudged down the hill and entered Tulgey Wood carefully peaking this way and that to
avoid running into one of this aggitated badgers or something twices as fierce.
Behind them a shadowed figure, precariously hidden by the direction of the sun laced a long,
crooked arm around the bellies of Tweedledee and Tweedledum. With eyes of flame and
steadied on the ground, the monster sucked them hurriedly into the trees.