he sat down at thebottom of the sea, and cried salt tears from sheerdisappointment. To have come all this way, and faced so manydangers, and yet to find no water-babies ! How hard !Well, it did seem hard: but people, even little babies,cannot have all they want without waiting for it, andworking… … <HAP. iv A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 139 Then lie began to ask all the strange things whichcame in out of the sea if they had seen any; andsome said Yes/ and some said nothing at all. He asked the bass and the pollock ; but they wereso greedy after the shrimps that they did not care toanswer…
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