Did you see him when he was alive, Cap'n Bill ?" "I reckon not," admitted the sailor.
"That time I had a toothache," continued Anko, "but I got a lobster to pull the tooth with his claw, so the pain was soon over." "Did it hurt to pull it ?" asked Trot.
"Hurt!" exclaimed the Sea Serpent, groaning at the recollection.

"My dear, those creatures have been called lobsters ever since! The second pain I had way back in the time of Nevercouldnever." "Oh, I s'pose you mean Nebuchadnezzar," said Trot.
"Do you call him that now ?" asked the Sea Serpent as if surprised.
"He used to be called Nevercouldnever when he was alive, but this new way of spelling seems to get everything mixed up.

Nebuchadnezzar doesn't mean anything at all, it seems to me." "It means he ate grass," said the child.
"Oh no, he didn't," declared the Sea Serpent.

"He was the first to discover that lettuce was good to eat, and he became very fond of it.

The people may have called it grass, but they were wrong.