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Now Tom had been in the most horrible and unspeakable fright all the while; and had kept as quiet as he could, though he was called a Holothurian and a Cephalopod; for it was fixed in his little head that if a man with clothes on caught him, he might put clothes on him too, and make a dirty black chimney-sweep of him again.
Presently, as he groped with his net among the weeds he caught poor Tom. "Dear me!" he cried, "what a large pink Holothurian. It has actually eyes. Why, it must be a Cephalopod!" "It is a water-baby," cried Ellie. "Water-fiddlesticks, my dear!" said the professor sharply. Now, Tom was in a most horrible fright, and between fright and rage he turned to bay and bit the professor's finger. "Oh!
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!
For a discussion of this subject, see P. van Beneden, Commensaux et Parasites, Paris, 1875. The Fierasfer, a little fish of the Mediterranean, installs himself in the respiratory cavity of a Holothurian; he does not live at the expense of his host's flesh, but contents himself with levying a tax on the foods which enter the cavity.
"No, no, no!" said Tom, "I've not been round the world, and through the world, and up to Mother Carey's haven, beside being caught in a net and called a Holothurian and a Cephalopod, to be bottled up by any old giant like you."
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