The Butcher would gladly have talked till next day,But he felt that the lesson must end,And he wept with delight in attempting to sayHe considered the Beaver his friend.Friendship is, of course, a double-edged sort of business, the very sort of tricksy fritter-my-wig-thingum-a-jig that Messers Lewis Carroll and C.L. Dodgson must have pondered over quite a bit in the course of their own long and fr