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 84
-fish, of which M. Quatrefages saysexcellently well — Who would notexclaim that a miracle had come topass, if he saw a reptile come out of the egg dropped bythe hen in his poultry-yard, and the reptile give birth atonce to an indefinite number of fishes and birds ? Yetthe history of the jelly-fish… … COUSIN CRAMCHILDSARGUMENTS. THE WATER BABIES what strange things cannot happen, till he has seen whatstrange things do happen every day. If he says that things cannot degrade, that is, changedownwards into lower forms, ask him who told him thatwater-babies were lower than land-babies ? But evenif…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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