Lewis Carroll

To form his celebrated pseudonym, Dodgson dropped his last name, reversed the order of his first two names, and converted them from rather dense Northern forms to something more Latinate. He also transformed his complex

Hiawatha's Photographing

by Lewis Carroll (1832–98)

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From his shoulder Hiawatha
Took the camera or rosewood,
Made of sliding, folding rosewood;
Neatly put it all together.
In its case it lay compactly,
Folded into nearly nothing;
But he opened out the hinges,
Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges,
Till it looked all squares and oblongs,
Like a complicated figure

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