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 24
s were fast asleep above, and thecows fast asleep beneath them ; nay, the few cloudswhich were about were fast asleep likewise, and so tiredthat they had lain down on the earth to rest, in longwhite flakes and bars, among the stems of the elm trees,and along the tops of the alders by the stream,… … TRUDGING ALONG WITH A BUNDLE AT HER BACK. 9 THE WATER BABIES to get over a gate, and pick buttercups, and look forbirds nests in the hedge ; but Mr. Grimes was a man ofbusiness, and would not have heard of that. Soon they came up with a poor Irishwoman, trudgingalong with a bundle at her back. She…
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