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 "I sent to them again to say, 'It will be better to obey.'

"The fishes answered, with a grin, 'Why, what a temper you are in!'

"I told them once, I told them twice; They would not listen to advice.

"I took a kettle, large and new, Fit for the deed I had to do.

"My heart went hop, my heart went thump; "I filled the kettle at the pump.

"Then some one came to me and said, 'The little fishes are in bed.'

"I said to him, I said it plain, 'Then you must wake them up again.'

"I said it very loud and clear; I went and shouted in his ear."

Humpty Dumpty raised his voice almost to a scream as he repeated this verse, and Alice thought, with a shud