' And so saying, she went off to the other
end of the shop, and set the egg upright on a shelf.
`I wonder WHY it wouldn't do?' thought Alice, as she groped her way
among the tables and chairs, for the shop was very dark towards the
end. `The egg seems to get further away the more I walk towards it.
Let me see, is this a chair? Why, it's got branches, I declare! How
very odd to find trees growing here! And actually here's a little
brook! Well, this is the very queerest shop I ever saw!'
So she went on, wondering more and more at every step, as
everything turned into a tree the moment she came up to it, and she
quite expected the egg to do the same.
CHAPTER VI
Humpty Dumpty
However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more
human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it
had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close to it, she
saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself. `It can't be anybody
else!' she said to herself. `I'm as certain of it, as if his name
were written all over his face.'
It might have been written a hundred times, easily, on that
enormous face.
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