And no more she did ; for she was like a great many people who have not a pretty feature in their faces , and yet are lovely to behold , and draw little children 's hearts to them at once because though the house is plain enough , yet from the windows a beautiful and good spirit is looking forth . And Tom smiled in her face , she looked so pleasant for the moment . And the strange fairy smiled too , and said : `` Yes . You thought me very ugly just now , did you not ? '' Tom hung down his head , and got very red about the ears . `` And I am very ugly . I am the ugliest fairy in the world ; and I shall be , till people behave themselves as they ought to do . And then I shall grow as handsome as my sister , who is the loveliest fairy in the world ; and her name is Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby . So she begins where I end , and I begin where she ends ; and those who will not listen to her must listen to me , as you will see . Now , all of you run away , except Tom ; and he may stay and see what I am going to do . It will be a very good warning for him to begin with , before he goes to school . `` Now , Tom , every Friday I come down here and call up all who have ill-used little children and serve them as they served the children . '' And at that Tom was frightened , and crept under a stone ; which made the two crabs who lived there very angry , and frightened their friend the butter-fish into flapping hysterics : but he would not move for them . And first she called up all the doctors who give little children so much physic -LRB- they were most of them old ones ; for the young ones have learnt better , all but a few army surgeons , who still fancy that a baby 's inside is much like a Scotch grenadier 's -RRB- , and she set them all in a row ; and very rueful they looked ; for they knew what was coming . And first she pulled all their teeth out ; and then she bled them all round : and then she dosed them with calomel , and jalap , and salts and senna , and brimstone and treacle ; and horrible faces they made ; and then she gave them a great emetic of mustard and water , and no basons ; and began all over again ; and that was the way she spent the morning . And then she called up a whole troop of foolish ladies , who pinch up their children 's waists and toes ; and she laced them all up in tight stays , so that they were choked and sick , and their noses grew red , and their hands and feet swelled ; and then she crammed their poor feet into the most dreadfully tight boots , and made them all dance , which they did most clumsily indeed ; and then she asked them how they liked it ; and when they said not at all , she let them go : because they had only done it out of foolish fashion , fancying it was for their children 's good , as if wasps ' waists and pigs ' toes could be pretty , or wholesome , or of any use to anybody . Then she called up all the careless nurserymaids , and stuck pins into them all over , and wheeled them about in perambulators with tight straps across their stomachs and their heads and arms hanging over the side , till they were quite sick and stupid , and would have had sun-strokes : but , being under the water , they could only have water-strokes ; which , I assure you , are nearly as bad , as you will find if you try to sit under a mill-wheel . 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 XXXXX 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 .
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