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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 240

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so to speak.And therefore her photographswere very curious and famous,and the children looked withgreat delight for the openingof the book. And on the title-page was written, The historyof the great and famous nation of the Doasyoulikes, whocame away from the country ofHardwork because they… … AND BATHED IN THE WARMSPRINGS. THE WATER BABIES if you want to know what that is, you must read Peter Simple. They lived very much such a life as those jolly old Greeks in Sicily, whom you may see painted on ancient vases, and really there seemed to begreat excuses for them, for they hadno need to…

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