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 285
as it is my custom to be. Once on a time, there were two brothers. Onewas called Prometheus, because he always looked beforehim and boasted that he was wise beforehand. Theother was called Epimetheus, because he always lookedbehind him, and did not boast at all; but said humbly,like the Irishman,… … BUT EP1METHEUS WAS A VERY SLOW FELLOW.258 THE WATER BABIES work was just what they would not do : whereforevery little has come of them, and very little is left ofthem ; and now nobody knows what they were, save afew archaeological old gentlemen, who scratch in queercorners, and find little there…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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