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 329
plenty, burn him ; for, being a water-baby, his radical humours were of a moist andcold nature, as you may read at large in Lemnius,Cardan, Van Helmont, and other gentlemen, who knewas much as they could, and no man can know more.And at last they came to chimney No. 345. Out of the topof it,… … And in his mouth was a pipe ; but it was not alight ;though he was pulling at it with all his might. Attention, Mr. Grimes, said the truncheon ; hereis a gentleman come to see you. But Mr. Grimes only said bad words ; and kept grum-bling My pipe wont draw. My pipe wont draw. Keep a civil tongue,…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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