What an advantage it is to be men of the world ! From all which you may guess that the professor was not the least of little Ellie 's opinion . So he gave her a succinct compendium of his famous paper at the British Association , in a form suited for the youthful mind . But , as we have gone over his arguments against water-babies once already , which is once too often , we will not repeat them here . Now little Ellie was , I suppose , a stupid little girl ; for , instead of being convinced by Professor Ptthmllnsprts ' arguments , she only asked the same question over again . `` But why are there not water-babies ? '' I trust and hope that it was because the professor trod at that moment on the edge of a very sharp mussel , and hurt one of his corns sadly , that he answered quite sharply , forgetting that he was a scientific man , and therefore ought to have known that he could n't know ; and that he was a logician , and therefore ought to have known that he could not prove a universal negative -- I say , I trust and hope it was because the mussel hurt his corn , that the professor answered quite sharply : `` Because there ai n't . '' Which was not even good English , my dear little boy ; for , as you must know from Aunt Agitate 's Arguments , the professor ought to have said , if he was so angry as to say anything of the kind -- Because there are not : or are none : or are none of them ; or -LRB- if he had been reading Aunt Agitate too -RRB- because they do not exist . And he groped with his net under the weeds so violently , that , as it befell , he caught poor little Tom . He felt the net very heavy ; and lifted it out quickly , with Tom all entangled in the meshes . `` Dear me ! '' he cried . `` What a large pink Holothurian ; with hands , too ! It must be connected with Synapta . '' And he took him out . `` It has actually eyes ! '' he cried . `` Why , it must be a Cephalopod ! This is most extraordinary ! '' `` No , I ai n't ! ''
cried Tom , XXXXX loud as he could ; for he did not like to be called bad names .
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