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laugh. “My name means the shape I am and a good handsome shape
it is, too. With a name that is like yours, you might be almost any
shape!”
“Why do you sit out here all alone?” asked Alice.
“Why, because there’s nobody with me!” cried Humpty Dumpty.
“Don’t you think you would be safer down on the ground?” Alice went
on. “That wall is so narrow.”
Humpty Dumpty said, “I don’t think so. If I ever did fall off, the King
has promised me — with his very own mouth-to-to-”
“to send all his horses and all his men,” Alice said. He asked how she
knew about it. Alice said that she had read it in a book.
“Yes, all his horses and all his men,” Humpty Dumpty went on. He
also asked Alice how old she was to which she replied that she was
seven years and six months. Humpty Dumpty told her that she should
have stopped at seven, and she was offended by the remark.
offended felt upset
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