This rhyme teaches youngsters that eggs should not sit on walls, that horses do not possess the dexterity with their legs to reassemble an egg and that it would be a brilliant strategy for an invading army to put an egg on an enemy wall, let it have a great fall and create a distraction for all the king's men and all the kings horses so the invading army can more easily invade the castle.
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