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.`I should like to buy an egg, please,' she said timidly.`Howdo you sell them?'`Fivepence farthing for one -- Twopence for two,' the Sheepreplied.`Then two are cheaper than one?' Alice said in a surprisedtone, taking out her purse.`Only you MUST eat them both, if you buy two,' said the Sheep.`Then I'll have ONE, please,' said Alice, as she put the moneydown on the counter.For she thought to herself, `They mightn'tbe at all nice, you know.'The Sheep took the money, and put it away in a box: then shesaid `I never put things into people's hands -- that would neverdo -- you must get it for yourself.' And so saying, she went offto the other end of the shop, and set the egg upright on a shelf.`I wonder WHY it wouldn't do?' thought Alice, as she groped herway among the tables and chairs, for the shop was very darktowards the end.`The egg seems to get further away the more Iwalk towards it.Let me see, is this a chair? Why, it's gotbranches, I declare! How very odd to find trees growing here!And actually here's a little brook! Well, this is the veryqueerest shop I ever saw!'* * * * * * ** * * * * ** * * * * * *So she went on, wondering more and more at every step, aseverything turned into a tree the moment she came up to it, andshe quite expected the egg to do the same.CHAPTER VIHumpty DumptyHowever, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and morehuman: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw thatit had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close toit, she saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself.`It can'tbe anybody else!' she said to herself.`I'm as certain of it, asif his name were written all over his face.'It might have been written a hundred times, easily, on thatenormous face.Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed,like a Turk, on the top of a high wall -- such a narrow one thatAlice quite wondered how he could keep his balance -- and, as hiseyes were steadily fixed in the opposite direction, and he didn'ttake the least notice of her, she thought he must be a stuffedfigure after all.`And how exactly like an egg he is!' she said aloud, standingwith her hands ready to catch him, for she was every momentexpecting him to fall.`It's VERY provoking,' Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence,looking away from Alice as he spoke, `to be called an egg --VERY!'`I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir,' Alice gently explained.`And some eggs are very pretty, you know, she added, hoping toturn her remark into a sort of a compliment.`Some people,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking away from her asusual, `have no more sense than a baby!'Alice didn't know what to say to this: it wasn't at all likeconversation, she thought, as he never said anything to HER; infact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree -- so shestood and softly repeated to herself: --`Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall:Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the King's horses and all the King's menCouldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.'`That last line is much too long for the poetry,' she added,almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.`Don't stand there chattering to yourself like that,' HumptyDumpty said, looking at her for the first time,' but tell me yourname and your business.'`My NAME is Alice, but -- '`It's a stupid name enough!' Humpty Dumpty interruptedimpatiently.`What does it mean?'`MUST a name mean something?' Alice asked doubtfully.`Of course it must,' Humpty Dumpty said with a sort laugh: `MYname means the shape I am -- and a good handsome shape it is,too.With a name like your, you might be any shape, almost.'`Why do you sit out here all alone?' said Alice, not wishing tobegin an argument.`Why, because there's nobody with me!' cried Humpty Dumpty.`Did you think I didn't know the answer to THAT? Ask another.'`Don't you think you'd be safer down on the ground?' Alice wenton, not with any idea of making another riddle, but simply in hergood-natured anxiety for the queer creature.`That wall is soVERY narrow!'`What tremendously easy riddles you ask!' Humpty Dumpty growledout.`Of course I don't think so! Why, if ever I DID fall off -- which there's no chance of -- but IF I did -- ' Here he pursedhis lips and looked so solemn and grand that Alice could hardlyhelp laughing.`IF I did fall,' he went on, `THE KING HASPROMISED ME -- WITH HIS VERY OWN MOUTH -- to -- to -- '`To send all his horses and all his men,' Alice interrupted,rather unwisely.`Now I declare that's too bad!' Humpty Dumpty cried, breakinginto a sudden passion.`You've been listening at doors -- andbehind trees -- and sown chimneys -- or you couldn't have knownit!'`I haven't, indeed!' Alice said very gently.`It's in a book.'`Ah, well! They may write such things in a BOOK,' HumptyDumpty said in a calmer tone.`That's what you call a History ofEngland, that is [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
