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It is disputed whether Carroll had a young audience in mind when he wrote the Snark.

The ballad, like almost all of the poems in the Alice books, has no young protagonists, is rather dark, and does not end happily.

In addition to the disappearance of the Baker, the Banker's loss of sanity is described in detail.

Similarly, Henry Holiday's illustrations for the original edition are caricatures with disproportionate heads and unpleasant features, very different from Tenniel's illustrations of Alice.