And mind -- when you hear a rumbling at the bottom of the sea , sailors will tell you that it is a ground-swell : but now you know better . It is the old lady wheeling the maids about in perambulators . And by that time she was so tired , she had to go to luncheon . And after luncheon she set to work again , and called up all the cruel schoolmasters -- whole regiments and brigades of them ; and when she saw them , she frowned most terribly , and set to work in earnest , as if the best part of the day 's work was to come . More than half of them were nasty , dirty , frowzy , grubby , smelly old monks , who , because they dare not hit a man of their own size , amused themselves with beating little children instead ; as you may see in the picture of old Pope Gregory -LRB- good man and true though he was , when he meddled with things which he did understand -RRB- , teaching children to sing their fa-fa-mi-fa with a cat-o ' - nine tails under his chair : but , because they never had any children of their own , they took into their heads -LRB- as some folks do still -RRB- that they were the only people in the world who knew how to manage children : and they first brought into England , in the old Anglo-Saxon times , the fashion of treating free boys , and girls too , worse than you would treat a dog or a horse : but Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid has caught them all long ago ; and given them many a taste of their own rods ; and much good may it do them . And she boxed their ears , and thumped them over the head with rulers , and pandied their hands with canes , and told them that they told stories , and were this and that bad sort of people ; and the more they were very indignant , and stood upon their honour , and declared they told the truth , the more she declared they were not , and that they were only telling lies ; and at last she birched them all round soundly with her great birch-rod and set them each an imposition of three hundred thousand lines of Hebrew to learn by heart before she came back next Friday . And at that they all cried and howled so , that their breaths came all up through the sea like bubbles out of soda-water ; and that is one reason of the bubbles in the sea . There are others : but that is the one which principally concerns little boys . And by that time she was so tired that she was glad to stop ; and , indeed , she had done a very good day 's work . Tom did not quite dislike the old lady : but he could not help thinking her a little spiteful -- and no wonder if she was , poor old soul ; for if she has to wait to grow handsome till people do as they would be done by , she will have to wait a very long time . Poor old Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid ! she has a great deal of hard work before her , and had better have been born a washerwoman , and stood over a tub all day : but , you see , people can not always choose their own profession . But Tom longed to ask her one question ; and after all , whenever she looked at him , she did not look cross at all ; and now and then there was a funny smile in her face , and she chuckled to herself in a way which gave Tom courage , and at last he said : `` Pray , ma'am , may I ask you a question ? '' `` Certainly , my little dear . '' `` Why do n't you bring all the bad masters here and serve them out too ? The butties that knock about the poor collier-boys ; and the nailers that file off their lads ' noses and hammer their fingers ; and all the master sweeps , like my master Grimes ? I saw him fall into the water long ago ; so I surely expected he would have been here . I 'm sure he was bad enough to me . '' Then the old lady looked so very stern that Tom was quite frightened , and sorry that he had been so bold . But she was not angry with him .
She only answered , `` I look after them all the week round ; and they are in a very different place from this , because they knew XXXXX they were doing wrong . ''
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