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 29
.And now they had gone three milesand more and came to Sir Johns lodgegates. Very grand lodges they were, withvery grand iron gates and stone gate-posts, and on thetop of each a most dreadful bogy, all teeth, horns, andtail, which was the crest which Sir Johns ancestors worein the Wars of the… … I WAS TOLD TOEXPECT THEE. THE WATER BABIES I was told to expect thee, he said. Now thoultbe so good as to keep to the main avenue, and not let mefind a hare or a rabbit on thee when thou comest back.I shall look sharp for one, I tell thee. Not if its in the bottom of the soot-bag, quothGrimes, and…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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