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 189
sitting on the white sand,very busy about a little point of rock. And when itsaw Tom it looked up for a moment, and then cried, 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, they… … THEY DID NOT WANT ANY INTRODUCTIONS THERE. I7O THE WATER BABIES We have been here for days and days. There arehundreds of us about the rocks. How was it you didnot see us, or hear us when we sing and romp every even-ing before we go home ? Tom looked at the baby again, and then he said— Well, this…
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