HUMPTY DUMPTY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 252, 21 July 1934, Page 23

HUMPTY DUMPTY

Humpty Dumpty sat on a tball, . HuinptiFDwnpty had a great fall; AU the- king's horses and all the king's men ’ , Couldn't put Humpty together again. ( Doubtless you have heard that rhyme millions of times, but \ did you ever know what happened after all the men and horses had looked at what remained of Humpty? Poor old Mrs. Dumpty thought Humpty was dead, and so did the, little Dumpty’s. "Oh, daddy, please come home.” they wailed, but it was no use. Then Mrs. Dumpty had an idea. Telling the children to be good and stop inside, Mrs. Dumpty put on her hat and coat and. with a few parting warnings and instructions, she went out

The road was fringed with flowers, the birds'were loud in their praises of the day. the little clouds played games across tli.e sky. and the sun smiled down on a peaceful land when Mrs. Dumpty turned into'the magic wood. “’Alt, 'oo goes there?” challenged a sentry. •■■■'. “Me." gasped Mrs. Humpty Dumpty. “T want the queen importantly.” “Pass. , friend.. Ask the gate guard.” cried the sentry and turned to challenge another man. . ; After a number of questions Mrs. I jmpty saw the queen and asked if she would please use her magic powers to make Humpty well again. The queen said she would if every year the Dnmptys would" let tho queen hare'some of the children,: Of course Mrs. Dumpty let the queen have six children if darling Humpty was cured,',,so. with an army of fairies with her the queen set out, to the wall. Humpty was cured, and every year the queen had six Easter eggs given to’her. ■ And that was how Easter eggs first began in Nursery Rhyme Land. “Tinky.Barret,” Hawera.