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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 147

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ound the buoy, and the old buoy danced withthem. The shadows of the clouds ran races over thebright blue bay, and yet never caught each other up ;and the breakers plunged merrily upon the wide whitesands, and jumped up over the rocks, to see what thegreen fields inside w^ere like, and tumbled down… … rv A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 137 like girls at play, and the sea-pies, with their red billsand legs, flew to and fro from shore to shore, andwhistled sweet and wild. And Tom looked andlooked, and listened ; and he would have been veryhappy, if he could only have seen the water-babies.Then when…

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