From ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ by Lewis Carroll.

The Barrister’s Dream

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
But the Barrister, weary of proving in vain
That the Beaver’s lace making was wrong,
Fell asleep and in dreams saw the creature quite plain
That his fancy had dwelt on so long.
He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court,
Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye,
Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig
On the charge of deserting its sty.
The witnesses proved without error or flaw,
That the sty was deserted when found:
And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law
In a soft under-current of sound.
The indictment had never been clearly expressed,
And it seemed that the Snark had begun,
And had spoken three hours, before anyone guessed
What the pig was supposed to have done.

Another Extract.

Then the Snark pronounced the sentence, the Judge being quite
Too nervous to utter a word:
Where it rose to its feet,
There was silence like night,
And the fall of a pin might be heard.
‘Transportation for life’ was the sentence it gave, ‘And then to be fined forty pounds.’
The jury all cheered, thought the judge said he feared
That the phrase was not legally sound.
But their wild exultation was suddenly checked
When the jailer informed them with tears,
Such a sentence would have not the slightest effect,
As the pig had been dead for some years.

Recommendation that the full poem must be read, so that you laugh for the rest of your life, each time you think about it. Best remedy to remove to stress and sadness.

Aim Hrim Klim

By Henry Holiday (1839-1927) after Lewis Carroll [Real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1896) – The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll, MacMillan and Co, Limited, St. Martin’s Street, London, 1931., Public Domain, Link