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 87
geese believe, spirits couldmake it dance, or talk to you by rapping on it. Am I in earnest ? Oh, dear no ! Dont you knowthat this is a fairy tale, and all fun and pretence ; andthat you are not to believe one word of it, even if it istrue ? But at all events, so it happened to Tom. And,therefore,… … TOM WAS QUITE ALIVE, AND CLEANER, AND MERKIER THAN HE EVER HAD BEEN. 70 THE WATER BABIES he had been drowned. They were utterly mistaken.Tom was quite alive, and cleaner, and merrier than heever had been. The fairies had washed him, you see,in the swift river, so thoroughly, that not only his…
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