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.
Then some one came to me and said,
The little fishes are in bed.
I said to him, I said it plain,
Then you must wake them up again.
I said it very loud and clear;
I went and shouted in his ear.
Humpty Dumpty raised his voice almost to a scream as he repeated this
verse, and Alice thought with a shudder, I wouldn t have been the
messenger for _anything_!
But he was very stiff and proud;
He said You needn t shout so loud!
And he was very proud and stiff;
He said I d go and wake them, if
I took a corkscrew from the shelf:
I went to wake them up myself.
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