![]() Dumphy, who is descibed as a diminutive hairy-cheeked man with a single eyebrow and a head which resembled the rounded point of a gwynook's egg. In the sequel of Seeing Redd, known as Arch Enemy, Humpty Dumpty is re-imagined as Mutty P.Humpty Dumpty as it appears in the 1933 film. He is listed in Through the Looking-Glass' dramatis personae as the Red Queen's rook. After waiting for him to speak again, Alice walks away and Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall and breaks. He then closes his eyes and grows silent. She add, ".till we meet again," but Dumpty explains that he cannot recognize faces and would not know her should he see her a second time. After reciting a poem, which he explains "was written entirely for (Alice's) amusement," he promptly says, "Goodbye," and shakes her hand in parting. ![]() He perches himself atop a nearby wall and begins instructing her (nonsensically, of course) in matters of grammar and semantics. Humpty Dumpty grows from an egg that Alice purchases from the Sheep's curiosity shop at the end of Chapter Five. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brewer's Dictionary explains Humpty Dumpty as being a corruption of "humped and dumpy" and defines it as another name for an egg. ![]()
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