rld whenever children want a new littlebrother or sister. Which must be a mistake, for this one reason:that, there being no atmosphere round the moon (thoughsome one or other says there is, at least on the otherside, and that he has been round at the back of it to 170 THK WATER-BABIES en \r. see,… … say, there being no atmosphere, there can be no evap-oration ; and therefore, the dew-point can never fallbelow 71 5° below zero of Fahrenheit: and, therefore,it cannot be cold enough there about four oclock inthe morning to condense the babies mesenteric apoph- IV A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 171…
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