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 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 did n't know what to say to this : it was n'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 Could n't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again . '
` That last line is much too long for the poetry , ' she added , almost out loud , forgetting that Humpty XXXXX would hear her .
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