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 68
are none. Well,perhaps there are none—in her political economy. Butit is a wide world, my little man—and thank Heaven forit, for else, between crinolines and theories, some of uswould get squashed—and plenty of room in it for fairies,without people seeing them; unless, of course, theylook in the… … THEY MAY BE JUST WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND. 53 THE WATER BABIES and think : and yet you cant see it. And there is steamin a steam-engine ; and that is what makes it move :and yet you cant see it ; and so there may be fairiesin the world, and they may be just what makes the worldgo round to the…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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