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 , 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 XXXXX ago that there were none .
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