" "It's a good story," said Captain Hardy, "but to my mind it doesn't come up to the one about Humpty-Dumpty.

" "It's a good story," said Captain Hardy, "but to my mind it doesn't come up to the one about Humpty-Dumpty.

It seems to me that a desire to retain some angles about one's person is a desire common to all those human beings who do not set their ultimate hopes upon looking like Humpty-Dumpty.

As for beverage, they drank humpty-dumpty, which is ale boiled with brandy, and which is not one of the slightest charms of a gipsy's life.