title: Jabberwocky: With New Illustrations by Paul Elwin Rodgers
author: Lewis Carroll
description: "Elwin Rodgers does a wonderful job opening up the poem, commenting on it artistically, and reimagining its figures." - Kirkus Reviews
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  # The Dancing Partner
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Jerome K. Jerome
  
  
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  "This story," commenced MacShaugnassy, "comes from Furtwangen, a small town in
  the Black Forest. There lived there a very wonderful old fellow named
  Nicholaus Geibel. His business was the making of mechanical toys, at which
  work he had acquired an almost European reputation. He made rabbits that would
  emerge from the heart of a cabbage, flop their ears, smooth their whiskers,
  and disappear again; cats that would wash their faces, and mew so natu