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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 195

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as two advantages—first, that of being quitetrue ; and second, that of having (as folks say all goodstories ought to have) no moral whatsoever: no more,indeed, has any part of this book, because it is a fairytale, you know. And now happened to Tom a most wonderful thing;for he had not left the… … V A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 185 Why, you are not one of us. You are a new baby !Oh, how delightful ! And it ran to Tom, and Tom ran to it, and theyhugged and kissed each other for ever so long, theydid not know why. But they did not want any intro-ductions there under the water. At last Tom…

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