The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby (1895)
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 · New York : Thomas Y. Crowell · leaf 75
lean as a fresh-runsalmon. Now, if you dont like my story, then go to theschoolroom and learn your multiplication-table, andsee if you like that better. Some people, no doubt,would do so. So much the better for us, if not forthem. It takes all sorts, they say, to make a world. 66 THE WATER-BABIES.… … ^■■VOM was now quite amphibi-ous. You do not know what thatmeans ? You had better, then,ask the nearest government pupil-teacher, who may possibly answeryou smartly enough, thus : — Amphibious. Adjective, de-rived from two Greek words, amphi,a fish, and bios, a beast. An animalsupposed by our…
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