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 304
om and the dog got safe away.On the borders of that island he found Gotham,where the wise men live ; the same who dragged thepond because the moon had fallen into it, and planteda hedge round the cuckoo, to keep spring all the year.And he found them bricking up the town gate, becauseit was so wide… … HE FOUND GOTHAM, WHERE THE WISE MEN LIVE. 277 THE W A T E R BABIES his country, if the kitten could not get in at the samehole as the cat, she might stay outside and mew. But he saw the end of such fellows, when he cameto the island of the Golden Asses, where nothing butthistles grow. For there…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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