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Aha, here is Humpty Dumpty's trail!" Uncle Pat had laid down a paper trail from this point, as Daddy well knew; so now the children were off like a little pack of eager harriers, following in and out among the bushes. Presently they had a rest. "Great Chief, why does a wicked Paleface leave paper wherever he goes?" Daddy made a great effort. "He tears up the wicked letters he has written.
I cried sharply. "Well, my boy, because because I that is I wanted to encourage you, and," he cried more confidently, "it was capital for you." "Oh, Uncle Joe, it was disgraceful, and I don't know what aunt would have said." "I don't know what she will say now," said my uncle ruefully, as he gazed down at Humpty Dumpty's wreck, where it lay crushed into the dust. "I'm afraid she'll be very cross.
"I think it is locked," said Humpty at last, sitting down despondently. He was panting breathlessly, and began to swing his legs. Dumpty's eyes grew wide with terror, her lips trembled. "Have they locked us in on purpose?" she asked. "Yes," said Humpty, "the circus people have locked us in, and they won't unlock the door until they have left Woodstead." "And then?" asked Dumpty.
"And one and one make two do you pick that up as well?" "Yes, I pick that up as well." "Then," said I, recollecting Humpty Dumpty's question in arithmetic to Alice, "how much is one-an'-one-an'-one-an'-one-an'-one-an'-one?" speaking it as it should be spoken, very rapidly.
Her lips were not rosy and fresh like mummie's or Dumpty's, but they were of a purple-grey colour, and when she opened her mouth, instead of a row of pearly white teeth showing, there was only one very large yellow tooth, which looked as if it could not stay much longer in the gum.
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