said poor little Tom . `` Of course I will , you little duck . I should like to take you with me and cuddle you all the way , only I must not ; '' and away she went . So Tom really tried to be a good boy , and tormented no sea-beasts after that as long as he lived ; and he is quite alive , I assure you , still . Oh , how good little boys ought to be who have kind pussy mammas to cuddle them and tell them stories ; and how afraid they ought to be of growing naughty , and bringing tears into their mammas ' pretty eyes ! CHAPTER VI `` Thou little child , yet glorious in the night Of heaven-born freedom on thy Being 's height , Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke - Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight , And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost , and deep almost as life . '' WORDSWORTH . I come to the very saddest part of all my story . I know some people will only laugh at it , and call it much ado about nothing . But I know one man who would not ; and he was an officer with a pair of gray moustaches as long as your arm , who said once in company that two of the most heart-rending sights in the world , which moved him most to tears , which he would do anything to prevent or remedy , were a child over a broken toy and a child stealing sweets . The company did not laugh at him ; his moustaches were too long and too gray for that : but , after he was gone , they called him sentimental and so forth , all but one dear little old Quaker lady with a soul as white as her cap , who was not , of course , generally partial to soldiers ; and she said very quietly , like a Quaker : `` Friends , it is borne upon my mind that that is a truly brave man . '' Now you may fancy that Tom was quite good , when he had everything that he could want or wish : but you would be very much mistaken . Being quite comfortable is a very good thing ; but it does not make people good . Indeed , it sometimes makes them naughty , as it has made the people in America ; and as it made the people in the Bible , who waxed fat and kicked , like horses overfed and underworked . And I am very sorry to say that this happened to little Tom . For he grew so fond of the sea-bullseyes and sea-lollipops that his foolish little head could think of nothing else : and he was always longing for more , and wondering when the strange lady would come again and give him some , and what she would give him , and how much , and whether she would give him more than the others . And he thought of nothing but lollipops by day , and dreamt of nothing else by night -- and what happened then ? That he began to watch the lady to see where she kept the sweet things : and began hiding , and sneaking , and following her about , and pretending to be looking the other way , or going after something else , till he found out that she kept them in a beautiful mother-of-pearl cabinet away in a deep crack of the rocks . And he longed to go to the cabinet , and yet he was afraid ; and then he longed again , and was less afraid ; and at last , by continual thinking about it , he longed so violently that he was not afraid at all .
And one XXXXX , when all the other children were asleep , and he could not sleep for thinking of lollipops , he crept away among the rocks , and got to the cabinet , and behold !
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