Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, ill · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 103
e call them Pterodactyles: but thatis only because they are ashamed to call them flyingdragons, after denying so long that flying dragonscould exist. The truth is, that folks fancy that such and suchthings cannot be, simply because they have not seenthem, is worth no more than a savages fancy… … their business is toand not to settleknow that there areknow that there havedragons;wiser theyless inclinedto say posi- THE WATER-BABIES
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