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"Wrong!" Humpty Dumpty exclaimed, triumphantly. " You never said a word like it I "
"I thought you meant'How old are you?'" Alice explained.
"If I'd meant that, I'd have said it," said Humpty Dumpty.
Alice didn't want to begin another argument, so she said nothing.
" Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated, thoughtfully. " An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd ask my advice,
I'd have said, ' Leave off at seven '------but it's too
late now."
"I never ask advice about growing," Alice said, indignantly.
"Too proud?" the other enquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. "I mean," she said, "that one can't help growing older."
" One can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty, " but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven."
" What a beautiful belt you've got on ! " Alice suddenly remarked. (They had had quite enough of the subject of age, she thought: and if they really were to take turns in choosing subjects, it was her turn now.) " At least," she corrected herself on second thoughts, " a beautiful cravat, I |
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