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 76
shall be the measure of allthings. But there are no such things as water-babies. How do you know that ? Have you been there tosee ? And if you had been there to see, and had seennone, that would not prove that there were none. IfMr. Garth does not find a fox in Eversley Wood—as folksometimes fear… … SOMEBODY WOULD HAVE CAUGHT ONE AT LEAST. 61 THE WATER BABIES right to say that no water-babies exist, till they haveseen no water-babies existing ; which is quite a differentthing, mind, from not seeing water-babies ; and a thingwhich nobody ever did, or perhaps ever will do. But surely if there…
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