They have almost forgotten , too , how to talk . For each stupid child forgot some of the words it heard from its stupid parents , and had not wits enough to make fresh words for itself . Beside , they are grown so fierce and suspicious and brutal that they keep out of each other 's way , and mope and sulk in the dark forests , never hearing each other 's voice , till they have forgotten almost what speech is like . I am afraid they will all be apes very soon , and all by doing only what they liked . '' And in the next five hundred years they were all dead and gone , by bad food and wild beasts and hunters ; all except one tremendous old fellow with jaws like a jack , who stood full seven feet high ; and M. Du Chaillu came up to him , and shot him , as he stood roaring and thumping his breast . And he remembered that his ancestors had once been men , and tried to say , `` Am I not a man and a brother ? '' but had forgotten how to use his tongue ; and then he had tried to call for a doctor , but he had forgotten the word for one . So all he said was `` Ubboboo ! '' and died . And that was the end of the great and jolly nation of the Doasyoulikes . And , when Tom and Ellie came to the end of the book , they looked very sad and solemn ; and they had good reason so to do , for they really fancied that the men were apes , and never thought , in their simplicity , of asking whether the creatures had hippopotamus majors in their brains or not ; in which case , as you have been told already , they could not possibly have been apes , though they were more apish than the apes of all aperies . `` But could you not have saved them from becoming apes ? '' said little Ellie , at last . `` At first , my dear ; if only they would have behaved like men , and set to work to do what they did not like . But the longer they waited , and behaved like the dumb beasts , who only do what they like , the stupider and clumsier they grew ; till at last they were past all cure , for they had thrown their own wits away . It is such things as this that help to make me so ugly , that I know not when I shall grow fair . '' `` And where are they all now ? '' asked Ellie . `` Exactly where they ought to be , my dear . '' `` Yes ! ''
said the fairy , solemnly , half to herself , XXXXX she closed the wonderful book .
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