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 321
d (whichhe did whenever it paid him), it was boiling pitch ; andsome of it was sure to stick. Here we are again ! cried he, like the clown in apantomime. So you cant feel frightened, my littledear—eh ? Ill do that for you. Ill make an impressionon you ! Yah ! Boo ! Whirroo ! Hullabaloo ! And he… … AND FAINTED RIGHT AWAY. 294 THE WATER BABIES ghosts, and magiolanthorns and pasteboard bogies andspring-heeled Jacks, and sallaballas, with such a horriddin, clatter, clank, roll, rattle, and roar, that the littleboy turned up the whites of his eyes, and fainted rightaway. And at that his poor…
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