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Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 13, 1953
July 12, 1953
July 14, 1953
Transcript:
Lucy sits on the floor reading. She reads, "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall..Humpty Dumpty had a great fall..."<BR><BR> She continues, "All the king's horses and all the king's men..."<BR><BR> She concludes, "Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again"<BR><BR> She walks off and tosses the book. She says, "That's the way it goes..."<BR><BR>
What’s interesting is, the Humpty Dumpty poem never actually ‘says’ that he’s an egg. The term “humpty dumpty” was often referred to as an alcoholic drink made of brandy and ale, which later then became a slang term for a short and clumsy person. So the poem might actually be about a clumsy person accidentally falling off a wall and getting hurt beyond all medical abilities. There are several other theories about what the poem is actually about, some historians have said that it’s about King Richard the third of England, because he was often depicted as humpbacked, and was killed in battle at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Others have said that Humpty Dumpty was the nickname for a strategically placed cannon that was on the wall in the town of Colchester, then an enemy cannon shot the base of the wall under that cannon, causing it to come crashing down to the ground, “…and all the king’s men” (the soldiers) could not fix the cannon and get it back up on the wall because it was too heavy.