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LIUMPTIY=DUMPTY was a smooth, round
little chap, with a winning smile, -
and a great golden heart in his broad
breast.
Only one thing troubled Humpty, and
that was, that he might fall and crack
his thin, white skin; he wished to be
hard, all the way through, for he felt his
heart wabble when he walked, or ran
about, so off he went to the Black Hen
for advice.
This Hen was kind and wise, so she
was just the one, for him to go to with
his trouble.
"Your father, Old Humpty," said the
Hen, "was very
warning from no
poet said of him:
foolish, and would take
one; you know what the
'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.'
"So you see, he came to a very bad
end, just because he was reckless, and
would not take a hint from any one,
he was much
worse than a
scrambled egg;
the king, his horses
S. Stand his men, did
all they could for
him, but his
case was
hopeless," and the Hen shook her head ,
sadly.
"What you must do," continued the
Hen, as she wiped a tear from her bright
blue eye, "is to go to the Farmer's Wife,
next door, and tell her to put you into S
a pot of boiling hot water; your skin
is so hard and smooth, it will not hurt
you, and when you come out, you may
do as you wish, nothing can break you,
you can tumble about to your heart's
content, and you will not break, nor even
dent yourself."
So Humpty rolled in next door, and
told the Farmer's Wife that he wanted to
be put into boiling hot water as he was
too brittle to be of any use to himself or
to any one else.
"Indeed you shall," ,
Wife, "what is more I
up in a piece of spotted
you will have a nice c(
will come out, looking
Easter Egg."
So she tied him up
in a gay new rag, and
dropped him into the
copper kettle of boiling
water that was on the
hearth.
It wat pretty hot for
Humpty at first, but
he soon got used to it,
and was happy, for he
felt himself getting
harder every minute.
He did n
long, before
as hard as
so, untying
the kettle as
tough and as
bright as any
hard boiled
Egg.
The cal=
ico had
marked
him from
head to foot
with big,
bright, red
spots, he
was as
lot have
he was
a brick
the rag
to stay in the water
quite well done, and
all the way through;
he jumped out of
gaudy as a circus clown,
and as nimble and
merry as one.
The Farmer's Wife
shook with laughter to
see the pranks of the
little fellow, for he
frolicked and frisked about from table to
chair, and mantelpiece; he would fall
from the shelf to the floor, just to show
how hard he was; and after thanking the
good woman most politely, for the service
she had done him, he walked out
into the sunshine,* on the clothes=line,
like a rope dancer, to see the wide, wide
world.
* *
Of the
travels of
Humpty-
Dumpty
much could
be said;
he went
East, West,
North and
South; he
sailed the seas, he walked and rode on
the land through all the Countries of the
Earth, and all his life long he was happy
and content.
Sometimes as a clown, in a circus,
he would make fun for old and young;
again, as a wandering minstrel, he
twanged the strings of his banjo and
sung a merry song, and so on through
all his travels, he would lighten the
cares of ers, and make them forget
their sorb ws,
he went, in /
sunshine or in
rain, he never
forgot to sing
the praises of the wise Black Hen nor the
good, kind Farmer's Wife, who had started
him in life, hardened against sorrow, with
a big heart in the right place, for the
cheer and comfort of OTHERS.
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