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"Nan is ill with a cold in her head," he explained, "and mum has just made her go to bed and drink hot milk." "I often see ye passin'," said Poor Jane conversationally. "Yes," said Humpty, who was still holding his sister's hand tight, "we often come this way for a walk, and we always see you." "You always walk this way, don't you?" said Dumpty bravely, though she still trembled with fright.

'It gets easier further on, Humpty Dumpty replied. 'I sent to them again to say "It will be better to obey." The fishes answered with a grin, "Why, what a temper you are in!" I told them once, I told them twice: They would not listen to advice. I took a kettle large and new, Fit for the deed I had to do. My heart went hop, my heart went thump; I filled the kettle at the pump.

Dumpty longed to stop and talk to a dear little piebald pony, but Humpty carried her on till they came to the caravans. Four or five men were lying face downwards on the grass worn out and tired. Before the steps of one caravan a group of children were playing, whilst one woman in a red shawl sat on the steps smoking a clay pipe, and holding a dirty-looking baby in her arms.

"Diddledy diddledy dumpty" the ridiculous refrain grew fainter and died away as the girls passed on to the orchard, and Betty, smiling in sympathy with their high spirits, ran down the stately marble steps to the seat under the willow.

It might be as well to say that the majority of those who went to witness "Humpty Dumpty" did so for the pure fun of the thing, and determined to have the lark out. There was no orchestra, for the orchestra was the band, and the band had to do the acting. The curtain went up somewhere about the hour announced.

Fox, from this, was known as Humpty Dumpty, and, strangely enough, also, the Americans for long enough afterwards called every Pantomime "Humpty Dumpty." Fox was a very good mimic, imitating all the Hamlets of the day, besides being a good melodramatic actor. He died October 24th, 1877, at Cambridge, Mass., of softening of the brain.

"Then they will keep us, and never let us come home again like they did to Poor Jane's brother, and I shall be a bare-back rider, and you will wear the blue velvet gown, and ride in the processions on the piebald pony." "And we shall never see mummie or daddy again or Nan or Poor Jane," said Dumpty, beginning to cry.

"It won't do," said Handy, "to try them on 'Uncle Tom, and I hardly think they'd stand for 'Humpty Dumpty' as we give it. I've been here in the good old summer days before many a time and oft, and I am conversant with the kind of audience we've got to stack up against.

The fact that he was now, whether he liked it or not, perched on the top of the wall like Humpty Dumpty, and that the burglar might see him and shoot him the next minute, had also an immediate influence on his movements. So he balanced himself cautiously and noiselessly and dropped upon the man's head and shoulders, bringing him down to the flagged walk with him and under him.

By the way, I believe they call George King Humpty Dumpty in the comic papers." The Duke smiled ruefully; in his heart he despised the King, and faintly saw that his class had lost their privileges, but he could not get used to it. He knew that he was a broken old man, an exile from home, and dependent upon the kindness of Mr.