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 149
old icebergs, afloatin the mid-ocean. So I got tangled among the ice-bergs, and chilled with their frozen breath. But thewater-babies helped me from among them, and set mefree again. And now I am mending every day; but Iam very sick and sad ; and perhaps I shall never gethome again to play with the… … AND A VERY DISTINGUISHED LOBSTER HE WAS. 130 THE WATER BABIES How vexatious ! The water-babies close to him, andyet he could not find one. And then he left the buoy, and used to go along thesands and round the rocks, and come out in the night—like the forsaken Merman in Mr. Arnolds…
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