Why is Humpty Dumpty usually drawn as an egg? Never once in the nursery rhyme is he described as an egg.

Maybe he was just a guy sitting on a wall.

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VioletRayne · 31-35, F

[c=#4C0073]because the image of all the Kings horses and all the Kings men trying to put him put together again would be awfully traumatic to young children.[/c]

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

You know what, that's true. Good thinking on the illustrator's part to make him an egg lol