The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby (1895)
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 · New York : Thomas Y. Crowell · leaf 240
uested to read,that, if ever they get tothe Other-end-of-Nowhere,as they may very probablythey may not burst outlaughing, or try to run away, or do any other silly,vulgar thing which may offend Mrs. Bedonebyasyou-did. Now, as soon as Tom had left Peacepool, he cameto the white lap of the great… … 222 THE WATER-BABIES. And there Tom was very near being kneaded upin the world-pap, and turned into a fossil water-baby;which would have astonished the Geological Societyof Xew Zealand some hundreds of thousands of yearshence. For, as he walked along in the silence of the sea-twilight on the soft…
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