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Drilling. [Poem].
AUTHOR/CREATOR
Wilcox, William Edward
NOTES
Eight verses of four lines about Army drill beginning "Sweet Amy asked, with pleading eyes,/ 'Dear Charley, teach me, will you,/ The words I've heard your Captain say,/ I should so like to drill you?'" - a comic verse about a brother trying to get his sister to follow commands, failing, and ending with "Said softly - 'As you were!'" signed W. E. W. This was William Edward Wilcox (1835-1876), Dodgson's cousin, a member of the Durham Light Infantry, Volunteer Garrison, Sunderland.
SUBJECT
Poems 1800-1900
MEDIUM
Clipping
LANGUAGE
English
PART OF
Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress, page 12
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
DIGITAL ID
lchtml 001203
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lchtml.001203
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