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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 265

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ch were going to ShinyWall : but where Allfowlsness was, he must promisenever to tell, lest men should go there and shoot the birds,and stuff them, and put them into stupid museums,instead of leaving them to play and breed and workin Mother Careys water-garden, where they ought to be. So where… … AND THEY CAWED AND CAWED. 240 THE WATER BABIES hundreds and hundreds of hoodie-crows, such as yousee in Cambridgeshire. And they made such a noise,that Tom came on shore and went up to see what was thematter. And there he found them holding their great caucus,which they hold every year in the North…

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