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She was also both careless and lazy , and disliked taking the trouble to put a bowl of milk in the same place every night for Mr. Nobody . `` She did n't believe in Brownies , '' she said ; `` she had never seen one , and seeing 's believing . '' So she laughed at the other servants , who looked very grave , and put the bowl of milk in its place as often as they could , without saying much about it . But once , when Brownie woke up , at his usual hour for rising -- ten o'clock at night , and looked round in search of his supper -- which was , in fact , his breakfast -- he found nothing there . At first he could not imagine such neglect , and went smelling and smelling about for his bowl of milk -- it was not always placed in the same corner now -- but in vain . `` This will never do , '' said he ; and being extremely hungry , began running about the coal-cellar to see what he could find . His eyes were as useful in the dark as in the light -- like a pussy-cat 's ; but there was nothing to be seen -- not even a potato paring , or a dry crust , or a well-gnawed bone , such as Tiny the terrier sometimes brought into the coal-cellar and left on the floor -- nothing , in short , but heaps of coals and coal-dust ; and even a Brownie can not eat that , you know .