<P> A manuscript addition to a copy of Mother Goose's Melody published in 1803 has the modern version with a different last line: "Could not set Humpty Dumpty up again". It was published in 1810 in a version of Gammer Gurton's Garland as: </P> <P> Humpty Dumpty sate (sic) on a wall, Humpti Dumpti (sic) had a great fall; Threescore men and threescore more, Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before . </P> <P> In 1842, James Orchard Halliwell published a collected version as: </P> <P> Humpty Dumpty lay in a beck . With all his sinews around his neck; Forty Doctors and forty wrights Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty to rights! </P>

Lewis carroll wrote a shaped poem about a horse's tail