I think you can't stop where you stopped the quote. Therefore:
"Ah, you should see 'em come round me of a Saturday night,"
Humpty Dumpty went on, wagging his head gravely from side to side,
"for to get their wages, you know."
"(Alice didn't venture to ask what he paid them with; and so you see
I can't tell you.)"
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So what DO you pay them with??
Ana
At 10:38 AM 1/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
After reading some of the recommended articles on community, I am beginning
to feel a little like Alice in "Through the Looking Glass". I hope we are
paying the word "community" a little extra.................djc
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`When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it
means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you CAN make words mean so many
different things.'
`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that's
all.'
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty
began again. `They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs, they're
the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs --
however, _I_ can manage the whole of them! Impenetrability! That's what _I_
say!'
`Would you tell me, please,' said Alice `what that means?`
`Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very
much pleased. `I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that
subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do
next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
`That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful
tone.
`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, `I
always pay it extra.'
`Oh!' said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other remark.
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