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136 "It wouldn't look nice," Alice objected. But Humpty Dumpty only shut his eyes and said "Wait till you've tried."

Alice waited a minute to see if he would speak again, but as he never opened his eyes or took any further notice of her, she said "Good-bye!" once more, and, getting no answer to this, she quietly walked away: but she couldn't help saying to herself as she went, "Of all the unsatisfactory" (she repeated this aloud, as it was a great comfort to have such a long word to say) "of all the unsatisfactory people I ever met" She never finished the sentence, for at this moment a heavy crash shook the forest from end to end.