If you know the story of the Jumblies, Edward Lear's happy-go-lucky clan of sailors in a sieve, then you will learn more of their saga in this charming love story in verse. Lear's tale takes us to the hills of the Chankly Bore, where the Jumblies made a stop during their odyssey, and it is here that a Jumbly lass finds love with a lonely Dong, a being whose proboscis is not only protuberant, it is positively illuminating. As he did with The Jumblies, Edward Gorey gives Lear's wee characters real personality, and his finely detailed drawings reward close observation, in this inspired union of two like-minded Edwards.