![[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.](/assets/img/quote-photos/at-the-end-of-the-story-its-main-character-tom-is-now-a-great-man-of-science.jpg)
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