Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Chapter 6 Page 24

‘I will, if I can remember it so long,’ said Alice.

‘You needn’t go on making remarks like that,’ Humpty Dumpty said: ‘they’re not sensible, and they put me out.’

‘I sent a message to the fish:

I told them “This is what I wish.”

The little fishes of the sea,

They sent an answer back to me.

The little fishes’ answer was

“We cannot do it, Sir, because — “’

‘I’m afraid I don’t quite understand,’ said Alice.

‘It gets easier further on,’