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 342
e, how you are grown,too ! And no wonder ; they were both quite grown up—he into a tall man, and she into a beautiful woman. Perhaps I may be grown, she said. I have hadtime enough ; for I have been sitting here waiting foryou many a hundred years, till I thought you were nevercoming. Many a… … I u IERE WAITI MANY A HUNDRED \ THE WATER BABIES looked at him ; and they liked the employment so muchthat they stood and looked for seven years more, andneither spoke nor stirred. At last they heard the fairy say— Attention,children. Are you never going to look at me again ? We have been looking…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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