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 41
row,hubbub, babel, shindy, hullabaloo,stramash, charivari, and totalcontempt of dignity, repose, andorder, as that day when Grimes, gardener, the groom,the dairymaid, Sir John, the steward, the ploughman,the keeper, and the Irishwoman all ran up the park,shouting, Stop thief ! in the belief that… … AND GAVE CHASE TO TOMLIKEWISE. THE WATER BABIES And all the while poor Tom paddled up the parkwith his little bare feet, like a small black gorilla fleeingto the forest. Alas for him ! there was no big fathergorilla therein to take his part—to scratch out the gar-deners inside with one paw, toss…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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