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could keep his balance. He was looking in the opposite direction and

so he didn’t take any 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 expecting
him to fall.

provoking causing a particular
“It’s very provoking,” Humpty Dumpty reaction
said after a long silence, looking away compliment a remark that

from Alice as he spoke, “to be called an expresses praise
egg—very!” chattering talking continuously

“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 compliment.

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

“Don’t stand there chattering to

yourself like that,” Humpty Dumpty
said, looking at her for the first time,

“but tell me your name and your
business!”

“My name is Alice, but—”

“What does it mean?” asked Humpty
Dumpty.

“Must a name mean something?”
Alice asked. “Of course, it must,”

Humpty Dumpty said with a short

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