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HUMPTY DUMPTY.

The little fishes' answer was
'We cannot do it, Sir, because——'"


"I'm afraid I don t quite understand," said Alice.

"It gets easier further on," Humpty Dumpty replied.


"I sent to them again to say

'It will be better to obey.'


The fishes answered with a grin,
'Why, what a temper you are in!'


I told them once, I told them twice:
They would not listen to advice.


I took a kettle large and new,
Fit for the deed I had to do.


My heart went hop, my heart went thump;
I filled the kettle at the pump.