Only see that , if you go hungry , your horse does not ; but give him his warm gruel and beer , and take him gently home , remembering that good horses do n't grow on the hedge like blackberries . It befell -LRB- to go on a second time -RRB- that Sir John , hunting all day , and dining at five , fell asleep every evening , and snored so terribly that all the windows in Harthover shook , and the soot fell down the chimneys . Whereon My Lady , being no more able to get conversation out of him than a song out of a dead nightingale , determined to go off and leave him , and the doctor , and Captain Swinger the agent , to snore in concert every evening to their hearts ' content . So she started for the seaside with all the children , in order to put herself and them into condition by mild applications of iodine . She might as well have stayed at home and used Parry 's liquid horse-blister , for there was plenty of it in the stables ; and then she would have saved her money , and saved the chance , also , of making all the children ill instead of well -LRB- as hundreds are made -RRB- , by taking them to some nasty smelling undrained lodging , and then wondering how they caught scarlatina and diphtheria : but people wo n't be wise enough to understand that till they are dead of bad smells , and then it will be too late ; besides you see , Sir John did certainly snore very loud . But where she went to nobody must know , for fear young ladies should begin to fancy that there are water-babies there ! and so hunt and howk after them -LRB- besides raising the price of lodgings -RRB- , and keep them in aquariums , as the ladies at Pompeii -LRB- as you may see by the paintings -RRB- used to keep Cupids in cages . But nobody ever heard that they starved the Cupids , or let them die of dirt and neglect , as English young ladies do by the poor sea-beasts . So nobody must know where My Lady went . Letting water-babies die is as bad as taking singing birds ' eggs ; for , though there are thousands , ay , millions , of both of them in the world , yet there is not one too many . Now it befell that , on the very shore , and over the very rocks , where Tom was sitting with his friend the lobster , there walked one day the little white lady , Ellie herself , and with her a very wise man indeed -- Professor Ptthmllnsprts . His mother was a Dutchwoman , and therefore he was born at Curacao -LRB- of course you have learnt your geography , and therefore know why -RRB- ; and his father a Pole , and therefore he was brought up at Petropaulowski -LRB- of course you have learnt your modern politics , and therefore know why -RRB- : but for all that he was as thorough an Englishman as ever coveted his neighbour 's goods . And his name , as I said , was Professor Ptthmllnsprts , which is a very ancient and noble Polish name . He was , as I said , a very great naturalist , and chief professor of Necrobioneopalaeonthydrochthonanthropopithekology in the new university which the king of the Cannibal Islands had founded ; and , being a member of the Acclimatisation Society , he had come here to collect all the nasty things which he could find on the coast of England , and turn them loose round the Cannibal Islands , because they had not nasty things enough there to eat what they left . But he was a very worthy kind good-natured little old gentleman ; and very fond of children -LRB- for he was not the least a cannibal himself -RRB- ; and very good to all the world as long as it was good to him . Only one fault he had , which cock-robins have likewise , as you may see if you look out of the nursery window -- that , when any one else found a curious worm , he would hop round them , and peck them , and set up his tail , and bristle up his feathers , just as a cock-robin would ; and declare that he found the worm first ; and that it was his worm ; and , if not , that then it was not a worm at all . He had met Sir John at Scarborough , or Fleetwood , or somewhere or other -LRB- if you do n't care where , nobody else does -RRB- , and had made acquaintance with him , and become very fond of his children . Now , Sir John knew nothing about sea-cockyolybirds , and cared less , provided the fishmonger sent him good fish for dinner ; and My Lady knew as little : but she thought it proper that the children should know something . For in the stupid old times , you must understand , children were taught to know one thing , and to know it well ; but in these enlightened new times they are taught to know a little about everything , and to know it all ill ; which is a great deal pleasanter and easier , and therefore quite right . So Ellie and he were walking on the rocks , and he was showing her about one in ten thousand of all the beautiful and curious things which are to be seen there .
But little Ellie was not satisfied XXXXX them at all .
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