Nonsense verses

[Moggypaws]

Hi,

Could anyone help with the following please:

Who wrote: 'He dreamt he saw the Buffalant/ And the spottified Dromedaraffe/ The blue Camelotamus, lean and gaunt/ And the wild Tigeroceros calf'. Was it Lewis Carroll; Ogden Nash or Thomas Hood the younger? I'm presuming it's a spoof of Lewis Carroll as he wrote something like ' He thought he saw a buffalo' etc.

Thanks very much.

[rosyrussell]

IT is from a story called From Nowhere to the North Pole - A Noah's Ark Aecological Narrative (1875) by Tom Hood. It appears in an anthology book called Alternative Alices published by the University Press of Kentucky

[Moggypaws]

Thank you so much RosyRussell. This was the last one left in a quiz I'm doing. It will save me so much time as I've been ploughing through Ogden Nash poems and I would never have found it!