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The water-babies : a fairy tale for land-baby (1894)

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Sambourne, Linley, ill · London : Macmillan & Co. · leaf 126

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; forif you ask him : Is there a salmon here, do you think, Dennis ? Is it salmon, thin, your honour manes ? Salmon ?Cartloads it is of thim, thin, an ridgmens, shouldtheringache out of water, av yed but the luck to see thirn. Ill A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 115 Then you fish the pool all cnvr,… … man, and understands it all like a book. Why, yespake as if yed known the wather a thousand years !As I said, how could there be a fish here at all, justnow ? But you said just now they were shoulderingeach other out of water ? And then Dennis will look up at you with his 116 THE WATER-BABIES CHAP.…

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