Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty rhyme is it ever mentioned that he is an egg.
It's not, though. The titular character originally referred to a cannon at the Siege of Colchester. The origin of Humpty being an egg came a couple centuries later, from an illustration in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.
6:25 PM - 19 Feb 2018
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