You see , I am one of the sons of Epimetheus , and must go backwards , if I am to go at all . '' `` But why do n't you stop , and let them come up to you ? '' `` Why , my dear , only think . If I did , all the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me , and then I should catch no more new species , and should grow rusty and mouldy , and die . And I do n't intend to do that , my dear ; for I have a destiny before me , they say : though what it is I do n't know , and do n't care . '' `` Do n't care ? '' said Tom . `` No . Do the duty which lies nearest you , and catch the first beetle you come across , is my motto ; and I have thriven by it for some hundred years . Now I must go on . Dear me , while I have been talking to you , at least nine new species have escaped me . '' And on went the giant , behind before , like a bull in a china-shop , till he ran into the steeple of the great idol temple -LRB- for they are all idolaters in those parts , of course , else they would never be afraid of giants -RRB- , and knocked the upper half clean off , hurting himself horribly about the small of the back . But little he cared ; for as soon as the ruins of the steeple were well between his legs , he poked and peered among the falling stones , and shifted his spectacles , and pulled out his pocket - magnifier , and cried - `` An entirely new Oniscus , and three obscure Podurellae ! Besides a moth which M. le Roi des Papillons -LRB- though he , like all Frenchmen , is given to hasty inductions -RRB- says is confined to the limits of the Glacial Drift . This is most important ! '' And down he sat on the nave of the temple -LRB- not being a man of the world -RRB- to examine his Podurellae . Whereon -LRB- as was to be expected -RRB- the roof caved in bodily , smashing the idols , and sending the priests flying out of doors and windows , like rabbits out of a burrow when a ferret goes in . But he never heeded ; for out of the dust flew a bat , and the giant had him in a moment . `` Dear me ! This is even more important !
Here is a cognate species XXXXX that which Macgilliwaukie Brown insists is confined to the Buddhist temples of Little Thibet ; and now when I look at it , it may be only a variety produced by difference of climate ! ''
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