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"Come, listen, my men, while I tell you again / The five unmistakable marks / By which you may know, wheresoever you go, / The warranted genuine Snarks.
"Let us take them in order. The first is the taste, / Which is meagre and hollow, but crisp: / Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist, / With a flavour of Will-o-the-wisp.