`They've a temper, some of them --
particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do
anything with, but not verbs -- however, _I_ can manage the whole of
them! Impenetrability! That's what _I_ say!'
`Would you tell me, please,' said Alice `what that means?`
`Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking
very much pleased. `I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had
enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention
what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here
all the rest of your life.'
`That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a
thoughtful tone.
`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty
Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.'
`Oh!' said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other
remark.
`Ah, you should see `em come round me of a Saturday night,' Humpty
Dumpty went on, wagging his head gravely from side to side: `for to
get their wages, you know.'
(Alice didn't venture to ask what he paid them with; and so you see
I can't tell YOU.)
`You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice. `Would
you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?'
`Let's hear it,' said Humpty Dumpty.
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