Yusei continued to wonder through the woods alone. He felt lost, and he couldn't remember what he was looking for. He looked behind him to see if he was walking around in circles-Again. He got an uncomfortable feeling that he was being stalked. He looked again. Nothing. 'Okay, I SWEAR someone is following me,' he thought. He looked behind a tree and saw 2 twins standing like statues near a tree. They looked an awful lot like Rua and Ruka; but they weren't. Yusei walked up to them and read their tags: "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum".
"Hey!" said the blue one labeled Dum. "If you think we're wax-works, you ought to pay you know. Nohow!"
"Contrariwise," said the Ruka look-a-like, labeled Dee, "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak to us!"
"That's logic!" they said at the same time.
"Uh, sorry," said Yusei, confused. "Hey, could you too tell me which way is the best way out of the wood? I'm lost, and I'm not sure where to go." The little twins looked at each other and shrugged. Yusei pointed and Rua. "First?"
"Nohow!" said Dum.
"Next!" said Yusei, pointing and Ruka.
"Contrariwise!" she replied. Yusei sighed and pushed his way between the two twins. "Nice to know you, goodbye!" he said. Suddenly, the twins caught up and spoke:
"You began wrong!" said Dum. "The first thing in a visit is to say: 'How d'ya do and shake hands'!" The twins took Yusei's hand each and they started going around in circles as if it were "Here we go round the mulberry bush". "That's manners!" they twins cried after spinning for a while.
"Whoa, I'm dizzy!" Yusei cried, slightly losing his balance.
"Hey! I daresay!" said Dee.
"This better not be a race!" said Yusei to himself.
"Do you like poetry?" Dum finished.
"Pretty much," said Yusei with a shrug. "Why?"
"Nah! You wouldn't be interested. Nohow!" said Dum, turning away.
"Contrariwise, you're in too much of a hurry!" said Dee, facing another direction. Yusei sighed. "Alright, I've got some spare time!"
"YOU HAVE?" The twins asked. "Well!" The twins suddenly pushed Yusei onto a log and both faced him like two puppets on a show.
"The Walrus and the Carpenter!" said Dum. Then they both sang the delightful poem:
"The sun was shining on the sea! Shining with all his might!
He did his very best to make the bellows smooth and bright-
And this was odd, because it was…
The middle of the night!
The Walrus and the Carpenter were walking close at hand!
They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand!
'If this were only cleared away,' they said, 'It WOULD be grand!'
'If seven maids with seven mops swept it for half a year,
Do you suppose,' the Walrus said, 'that they should get it clear?'
'I doubt it,' said the Carpenter, and shed a bitter tear.
'O oysters, come walk with us!' the Walrus did beseech.
'A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, along the briny beach;
We cannot do with more than four to give a hand to each.'
The eldest Oyster looked at him, but never a word he said;
The eldest Oyster winked his eye, and shook hid heavy head-
Meaning to say he did not choose to leave the oyster bed.
But four young Oysters hurried up, and yet another four,
And thick and fast they came at last, and more and more and more-
All hoping through the frothy waves, and scrambling to shore.
'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'to talk of many things:
Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings!
And why the sea is boiling hot? And whether pigs have wings?'
'A loaf of bread!' the Walrus said, 'Is what we cheerfully need!
Pepper and vinegar besides are very good indeed!
Now, if you're ready, Oysters dear-we can begin the feed!
It was so kind of you to come! And you're very nice!'
The Carpenter said nothing but 'Cut us another slice.
I wish you were not quite so deaf-I had to speak to you twice!'
'I weep for you,' the Walrus said, 'I deeply sympathise.'
With sobs and tears he sorted out those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief before his steaming eyes.
'O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, 'You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we trotting home again" But answer there came none-
And this was scarcely odd because they'd been eaten every one!"
"THE END!" The twins called at last.
"That has got to be the longest and most peculiar poem I've ever heard," said Yusei.
"I've heard longer, nohow!" said Dum.
"Contrariwise-" Yusei got up before Dee could finish her sentence. "It was nice to meet both of you-"
"ANOTHER POEM!" The twins cried, shoving Yusei back on the log. "Father William!" As the twins continued with another poem, Yusei crept out of the woods leaving the twins singing and dancing in mid-air.
'I'm surprised they didn't recognize!' thought Yusei. Then, he hadn't gotten far, until he saw something coming his way.
