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 194
hesat down under the cedars and preached to all the birdsin the air. And they liked his sermons so well that theytold the fishes in the sea; and they came and St. Brandanpreached to them, and the fishes told the water-babies,who live in the caves under the isle ; and they came upby hundreds every… … AND THE FISHES TOLD THE WATER-BABIES. THE WATER BABIES dared not walk for fear of treading on it, and then hemight have tumbled down. And at last he and the fivehermits fell fast asleep under the cedar-shades, and therethey sleep unto this day. But the fairies took to thewater-babies, and taught…
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