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 , as loud as he could ; for he did not like to be called bad names . `` It is a water-baby ! '' cried Ellie ; and of course it was . `` Water-fiddlesticks , my dear ! '' said the professor ; and he turned away sharply . There was no denying it . It was a water-baby : and he had said a moment ago that there were none . What was he to do ? He would have liked , of course , to have taken Tom home in a bucket . He would not have put him in spirits . Of course not .
He would have kept him alive , and petted him -LRB- XXXXX he was a very kind old gentleman -RRB- , and written a book about him , and given him two long names , of which the first would have said a little about Tom , and the second all about himself ; for of course he would have called him Hydrotecnon Ptthmllnsprtsianum , or some other long name like that ; for they are forced to call everything by long names now , because they have used up all the short ones , ever since they took to making nine species out of one .
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