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 184
day he was so tired with sitting on a hardchair, in a grand furred gown, with a gold chain roundhis neck, hearing one policeman after another come inand sing, r What shall we do with the drunken sailor,so early in the morning ? and answering them eachexactly alike— Put him in the round house till… … AND PLAYED LEAP-FROG WITH THE TOWN-CLERK. 165 THE WATER BABIES and then said, It is a low spring-tide ; I shall get outthis afternoon and cut my capers. Now, he did not mean to cut such capers as you eatwith boiled mutton. It was the commandant of artilleryat Valetta who used to amuse himself with…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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