The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby (1895)
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 · New York : Thomas Y. Crowell · leaf 62
hildren always wake after they haveslept exactly as long as is good for them, — foundhimself swimming about in the stream, being aboutfour inches, or — that I may be accurate — 3.87902inches long, and having round the parotid region ofhis fauces a set of external gills (I hope you under-stand all… … A water-baby — Page 55. A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY. 55 In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby ? You never heard of a water-baby.Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this storywas written. There are a great many things in theworld which you never heard of; and a…
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