Scrambled Humpty Dumpty
Oh, for the love of Old Mother Goose, do we really need such happily-ever-after endings for everything that it becomes necessary to have Humpty Dumpty end with all the King's men making "Humpty happy again?" Apparently somebody at the BBC thought so.
Here's a completely unreconstructed Humpty, courtesy of illustrator Rene Milot.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpvwfM2hTe-Ybc0Y_AtlO1_TwaHyaEPZh7W6B_EHVB4OAw6LIm0ITt2rE4LwV5vv0KTHIYmISX0b4OfFsG1bb4D7I_n5Rlkc3LnSrgxUMVIvkTseHO0Ij164GGUqiwh-Nhbbc50BEKw5E/s200/humptydumpty(%C2%A9milot).jpg)
And here's a short story called "The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds," by Neil Gaiman in which Humpty Dumpty is portrayed as a murder victim in sort of noir nursery fable.
Here's a completely unreconstructed Humpty, courtesy of illustrator Rene Milot.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpvwfM2hTe-Ybc0Y_AtlO1_TwaHyaEPZh7W6B_EHVB4OAw6LIm0ITt2rE4LwV5vv0KTHIYmISX0b4OfFsG1bb4D7I_n5Rlkc3LnSrgxUMVIvkTseHO0Ij164GGUqiwh-Nhbbc50BEKw5E/s200/humptydumpty(%C2%A9milot).jpg)
And here's a short story called "The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds," by Neil Gaiman in which Humpty Dumpty is portrayed as a murder victim in sort of noir nursery fable.
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