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Shellfish Talk
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sea, and live there a while, he would discover some wonderful things—things that people have never dreamed of."
"But men do go down, don't they?" I asked—"divers and people like that?"
"Oh yes, to be sure," said the Doctor. "Divers go down. I've been down myself in a diving-suit, for that matter. But my!—they only go where the sea is shallow. Divers can't go down where it is really deep. What I would like to do is to go down to the great depths—where it is miles deep—Well, well, I dare say I shall manage it some day. Let me give you another cup of tea."
