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 you call a History of England, that is. Now take a good look at me! I'm one that has spoken to a King, I am; mayhap you'll never see such another; and, to show you I'm not proud, you may shake hands with me!" And he grinned almost from ear to ear, as he leaned forward (and as nearly as possible fell off the wall in doing so) and offered Alice his hand. She watched him a little anxiously as she took it. "If he smiled much more the ends of his mouth might meet behind," she thought; "and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!"

"Yes. all his horses and all his men," Humpty Dumpty went on. "They'd pick me up again in a minute, they would! However, this conversation is going on a little too fast; let's go back to the last remark but one."

"I'm afraid I can't quite remember it," Alice said, very politely.