Interesting side bit of trivia about Humpty Dumpty…
There is nothing in the original rhyme (“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the kings men, couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again”) that says he was an egg.
Humpty Dumpty was never referred to as an egg until Lewis Carroll (pen name of respected and very serious and austere conservative theologian Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who did not want to be tied too publicly to the flights of fantasy in his Alice stories) described ol’ Humpty as an egg in Through the Looking Glass, his sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
Interesting side bit of trivia about Humpty Dumpty…
There is nothing in the original rhyme (“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the kings men, couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again”) that says he was an egg.
Humpty Dumpty was never referred to as an egg until Lewis Carroll (pen name of respected and very serious and austere conservative theologian Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who did not want to be tied too publicly to the flights of fantasy in his Alice stories) described ol’ Humpty as an egg in Through the Looking Glass, his sequel to Alice in Wonderland.