Quote#Books & Reading
From his shoulder Hiawatha
Quote byLewis Carroll · 1832–1898
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Rhyme? and Reason? (1883), Hiawatha's Photographing st. 1 & 2.
English (original)
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of 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 In the Second Book of Euclid.
— Lewis Carroll
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