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Title: Denslow's Humpty Dumpty

Author: William Wallace Denslow

Release Date: June 23, 2008 [EBook #25883]

Language: English

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Denslow's

HUMPTY DUMPTY

Adapted and Illustrated by W. W Denslow

[Illustration
(Humpty Dumpty)]

G. W. Dillingham Co.
Publishers New York.

Copyright 1903 by
W. W. Denslow

Published, August

1903

[Illustration
(Humpty dances for three children and a dog):
To Edward Hall.]

HUMPTY DUMPTY.

[Illustration
(Bare Humpty sitting)]

Humpty-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
foolish, and would take warning from no one; you know
what the poet said of him:

'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.'

[Illustration
(Humpty talks to the Hen)]

"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 and his men, did all they could for him,
but his case was hopeless," and the Hen shook her head
sadly.

[Illustration
(Humpty's father afte