He had never seen a caddis with a house-door before: so what must he do, the meddlesome little fellow, but pull it open, to see what the poor lady was doing inside.
Tom asked him about water-babies. " Yes, " he said. He had seen them often. But he did not think much of them. They were meddlesome little creatures, that went about helping fish and shells which got into scrapes.
But he left something with us, sort of a blueprint in " Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? " , his book, and he said, going forward, the meddlesome task is to organize our strength into compelling power.