“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 lot of them!”
— boasts Humpty-Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s 1872 classic, Through the Looking Glass
The figurines are from my childhood — the larger one is a piggy bank.
(Thanks to PJ Coldren for reminding me of this quote.)