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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 can'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