In answer to your question, I suggest that you read M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman. In this book of short stories, he wrote a small mystery off of the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, along with a few others.
Winken, Blinken, and Nod sailed off in a wooden shoe in the nursery rhyme "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod."
DIDDLE, diddle dumpling, my son John He went to bed with his stockings on; One shoe off, and one shoe on, Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John.
No one he put all his weight forward then he fell.(but was it really an accident, or murder...)
I believe it comes from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty who fell off the wall - 'all the kings horse's and all the kings men" However nowhere in the nursery rhyme is their any reference to Humpty Dumpty being an egg!
Their tails. Three Blind Mice See how they run They all run after the farmer's wife Who cut off their tails with a carving knife You never saw such a thing in your life As three blind mice.
In the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty," all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again after he fell off a wall.
The nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" is traditionally set on a wall. In most versions of the rhyme, Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall and cannot be repaired.
Humpty Dumpty is a nursery rhyme character, and in the rhyme it is stated that he fell off the wall. However, since nursery rhymes are fictional stories passed down through generations, there is no historical evidence to confirm the existence of Humpty Dumpty or his fall.
Old nursery rhyme, Three Blind Mice.
They ran after the Farmer's Wife, who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Bo Peep is the nursery rhyme character who lost her woolly quadrupeds. The rhyme begins "Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them."
'Hey Diddle Diddle'Hey diddle diddle,The cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon,The little dog laughed to see such sport,And the dish ran away with the spoon.