lpleasanter and easier, and therefore quite right. So Ellie and he were walking on the rocks, and •he was showing her about one in ten thousand of all the beautiful and curious things which are to be seen there. But little Ellie was not satisfied with them at all. She likiid much better to play… … me, or talk to me. If there were little children nowin the water, as there used to be, and I could see them,I should like that. 152 THE WATER-BABIES CHAP. Children in the water, you strange little duck?said the professor. Yes/ said Ellie. I know there used to bechildren in the water, and mermaids…
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