Jabberwocky Series: Slaying the Jabberwocky Traditional Cache
Jabberwocky Series: Slaying the Jabberwocky
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Off McKenzie River Trail. BYOP
This is the 4th of 5 in cache series honoring Lewis Carroll,
and the “Jabberwocky” poem
from the novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Slaying the Jabberwocky cache:
"The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood"
Transaltion: Tugley woods - thick dense dark is where the Jabberwocky likes to lay.
"One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!"
Collect your vorpal sword at tree nearby. After you slay the Jabberwocky Please return everything to the way it was for another to have a valiant adventure.
Please do not step in or on the edge of the Jabberwocky's mouth, or you may be swallowed up alive. Use your Vorpol blade to retreive and replace.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Guehfg lbhe oynqr vagb gur Wnoorejbpxl'f zbhgu, naq lbh znl qvfpbire n pnpur nggnpurq (vg'f nyy qbar jvgu jverf).
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