Saturday, July 16, 2011

Where in the Nursery Rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty was an Egg?

According to Martin Gardner, in The Annotated Mother Goose, the Humpty Dumpty rhyme is a riddle. Riddling rhymes were a popular source of entertainment for many centuries. The answer to the Humpty Dumpty riddle is, of course, "an egg."

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