Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 337
l have thevery best place; so get out, all of you, this moment. And she took up two great armfuls of babies—nine hundred under one arm and thirteen hundred 318 Tom, the Water Baby under the other—and threw them away, right andleft, into the water. But they did not even taketheir thumbs out of their… … SHE TOOK TOM IN HER ARMS the softest place of all, and kissed him, and pattedhim, and talked to him, tenderly and low, suchthings as he had never heard before in his life; andTom looked up into her eyes, and loved her, andloved, till he fell asleep from pure love. And when he woke she was telling…
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