Alice was silent.
"In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean." "Thank you very much," said Alice.
"In summer, when the days are long, Perhaps you'll understand the song: In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down." "I will, if I can remember it so long," said Alice.
"You needn't go on making remarks like that," Humpty Dumpty said: "they're not sensible, and they put me out." "I sent a message to the fish: I told them "This is what I wish." The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me.
The little fishes" answer was "We cannot do it, Sir, because--"" "I'm afraid I don't quite understand," said Alice.
"It gets easier further on," Humpty Dumpty replied.
"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 shudder, "I wouldn't have been the messenger for ANYTHING!" "But he was very stiff and proud; He said "You needn't shout so loud!" And he was very proud and stiff; He said "I'd go and wake them, if--" I took a corkscrew from the shelf: I went to wake them up myself.
And when I found the door was locked, I pulled and pushed and kicked and knocked.
And when I found the door was shut, I tried to turn the handle, but--" There was a long pause.
"Is that all ?" Alice timidly asked.
"That's all," said Humpty Dumpty.

"Good-bye." This was rather sudden, Alice thought: but, after such a VERY strong hint that she ought to be going, she felt that it would hardly be civil to stay.

So she got up, and held out her hand.

"Good-bye, till we meet again!" she said as cheerfully as she could.
"I shouldn't know you again if we DID meet," Humpty Dumpty replied in a discontented tone, giving her one of his fingers to shake; "you're so exactly like other people." "The face is what one goes by, generally," Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.
"That's just what I complain of," said Humpty Dumpty.

"Your face is the same as everybody has--the two eyes, so--" (marking their places in the air with this thumb) "nose in the middle, mouth under.