The Sheep took the money , and put it away in a box : then she said ' I never put things into people 's hands -- that would never do -- you must get it for yourself . ' And so saying , she went off to the other end of the shop , and set the egg upright on a shelf . ' I wonder WHY it would n't do ? ' thought Alice , as she groped her way among the tables and chairs , for the shop was very dark towards the end . ` The egg seems to get further away the more I walk towards it . Let me see , is this a chair ? Why , it 's got branches , I declare ! How very odd to find trees growing here ! And actually here 's a little brook ! Well , this is the very queerest shop I ever saw ! ' * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 . CHAPTER 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 ca n'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 did n'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 XXXXX as he spoke , ` to be called an egg -- VERY ! ' '
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