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 80
dragonwas an impossiblemonster ? And dowe not now knowthat there are hun-dreds of them foundfossil up and downthe world ? Peoplecall them Ptero-dactyles ; but thatis only becausethey are ashamedto call themflying dragons,after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.The truth is, that folks… … PEOPLE CALL THEM PTERODACTYLES. THE WATER BABIES one running wild in the forest. Wise men know thattheir business is to examine what is, and not to settlewhat is not. They know that there are elephants ; theyknow that there have been flying dragons, and the wiserthey are, the less inclined they…
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