thorough an Englishman as ever coveted hisneighbours goods. And his name, as I said, wasProfessor Ptthmllnsprts, which is a very ancient andnoble Polish name. He was, as I said, a very great naturalist, and IV A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 149 chief professor of… … find on the coast of England, and turn them looseround the Cannibal Islands, because they had notnasty things enough there to eat what they left. But he was a very worthy kind good-natured littleold gentleman; and very fond of children (for he was 150 THE WATER-BABIES CHAP. not the least a cannibal…
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