`` Exactly where they ought to be , my dear . '' `` Yes ! '' said the fairy , solemnly , half to herself , as she closed the wonderful book . `` Folks say now that I can make beasts into men , by circumstance , and selection , and competition , and so forth . Well , perhaps they are right ; and perhaps , again , they are wrong . That is one of the seven things which I am forbidden to tell , till the coming of the Cocqcigrues ; and , at all events , it is no concern of theirs . Whatever their ancestors were , men they are ; and I advise them to behave as such , and act accordingly . But let them recollect this , that there are two sides to every question , and a downhill as well as an uphill road ; and , if I can turn beasts into men , I can , by the same laws of circumstance , and selection , and competition , turn men into beasts . You were very near being turned into a beast once or twice , little Tom . Indeed , if you had not made up your mind to go on this journey , and see the world , like an Englishman , I am not sure but that you would have ended as an eft in a pond . '' `` Oh , dear me ! '' said Tom ; `` sooner than that , and be all over slime , I 'll go this minute , if it is to the world 's end . '' CHAPTER VII `` And Nature , the old Nurse , took The child upon her knee , Saying , ` Here is a story book Thy father hath written for thee . '' ` Come wander with me , ' she said , ` Into regions yet untrod , And read what is still unread In the Manuscripts of God . ' `` And he wandered away and away With Nature , the dear old Nurse , Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe . '' LONGFELLOW . `` Now , '' said Tom , `` I am ready be off , if it 's to the world 's end . '' `` Ah ! '' said the fairy , `` that is a brave , good boy . But you must go farther than the world 's end , if you want to find Mr. Grimes ; for he is at the Other-end-of-Nowhere .
You must go to Shiny Wall , and through the white gate that never was opened ; and then you will come XXXXX Peacepool , and Mother Carey 's Haven , where the good whales go when they die .
at by for into over than that till to with