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 178
he moon wentabout on Midsummer day in Macintoshes and Cordingsboots, spearing eels and sneezing) ; that, therefore, Isay, there being no atmosphere, there can be no evapo-ration, and therefore the dew-point can never fall below715° below zero of Fahrenheit : and, therefore, it cannotbe cold enough… … THE WATER BABIES cough, they cannot be babies at all; and, therefore, thereare no babies in the moon. Q.E.D. Which may seem a roundaboutreason ; and so, perhaps, it is: butyou will have heard worse ones in yourtime, and from better men than you are. But one thing is certain ; that,when the good old…
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