The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby (1915)
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944, ill · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 146
floated away, the happystupid things, and all went ashore upon the sands. Then there came in a great lazy sunfish, as big asa fat pig cut in half; and he seemed to have been cutin half, too, and squeezed in a clothes-press till he wasflat; but to all his big body and big fins he had onlya little… … THEN THERE CAME IN A GREAT LAZY SUNFISH. 127 THE WATER BABIES got wrong somehow. Dear me ! it was all by followingthat pleasant warm water. Im sure Ive lost my way. And when Tom asked him again, he could onlyanswer, Ive lost my way. Dont talk to me ; Iwant to think. But, like a good many other…
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