Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Author:Lewis Carroll
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, pdf
Tags: Fantasy literature
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2017-10-31T00:52:28+00:00

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So she went on, won­der­ing more and more at every step, as everything turned into a tree the mo­ment she came up to it, and she quite ex­pec­ted the egg to do the same.

VI Humpty Dumpty

However, the egg only got lar­ger and lar­ger, and more and more hu­man: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close to it, she saw clearly that it was Humpty Dumpty him­self. “It can’t be any­body else!” she said to her­self. “I’m as cer­tain of it, as if his name were writ­ten all over his face.”

It might have been writ­ten a hun­dred times, eas­ily, on that enorm­ous face. Humpty Dumpty was sit­ting with his legs crossed, like a Turk, on the top of a high wall—such a nar­row one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep his bal­ance—and, as his eyes were stead­ily fixed in the op­pos­ite dir­ec­tion, and he didn’t take the least no­tice of her, she thought he must be a stuffed fig­ure after all.

“And how ex­actly like an egg he is!” she said aloud, stand­ing with her hands ready to catch him, for she was every mo­ment ex­pect­ing him to fall.

“It’s very pro­vok­ing,” Humpty Dumpty said after a long si­lence, look­ing away from Alice as he spoke, “to be called an egg—very!”

“I said you looked like an egg, Sir,” Alice gently ex­plained. “And some eggs are very pretty, you know” she ad­ded, hop­ing to turn her re­mark into a sort of a com­pli­ment.

“Some people,” said Humpty Dumpty, look­ing away from her as usual, “have no more sense than a baby!”

Alice didn’t know what to say to this: it wasn’t at all like con­ver­sa­tion, she thought, as he never said any­thing to her; in fact, his last re­mark was evid­ently ad­dressed to a tree—so she stood and softly re­peated to her­self:—

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the King’s horses and all the King’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.”

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