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 89
en Sir John did some-thing as like crying as ever he did in his life, and blamedhimself more bitterly than he need have done. So hecried, and the groom-boy cried, and the huntsman cried,and the dame cried, and the little girl cried, and thedairymaid cried, and the old nurse cried (for it… … WHEN ALL THE WORLD IS YOUNG, LAD. THE WATER BABIES for he was so dried up with running after poachersthat you could no more get tears out of him than milkout of leather ; and Grimes did not cry, for Sir Johngave him ten pounds and he drank it all in a week.Sir John sent far and wide to find Toms…
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