Humpty Dumpty
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Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme
First appearance in print: 1810
Interesting: Note that the rhyme doesn't say anything about Humpty Dumpty being an egg!
Literate: Humpty appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and manages to say some things!
Vocabulary
- Humpty Dumpty, formerly slang for a short and clumsy person
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses, and all the King's men
Cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again.
The Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme appears in Blanche Fisher Wright's classic The Real Mother Goose
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