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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 221

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an officer with a pair of grey mous-taches as long as your arm, who said once in companythat two of the most heartrending sights in the world,which moved him most to tears, which he would doanything to prevent or remedy, were a child over a brokentoy and a child stealing sweets. The company did not… … THOU LITTLE CHILD. THE WATER BABIES her cap, who was not, of course, generally partial tosoldiers ; and she said very quietly, like a Quaker :— Friends, it is borne upon my mind that that is atruly brave man. Now,you may fancy that Tom was quite good whenhe had everything that he could want or wish…

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