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The water-babies (1916)

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, ill · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 54

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more than you can do. Where-fore his pursuers found it very difficult to catch him;and we will hope that they did not catch him at all. Tom, of course, made for the woods. He had neverbeen in a wood in his life; but he was sharp enoughto know that he might hide in a bush, or swarm up atree, and,… … different sort of place from what he had fancied. Hepushed into a thick cover of rhododendrons, and foundhimself at once caught in a trap. The boughs laidhold of his legs and arms, poked him in his face andhis stomach, made him shut his eyes tight (thoughthat was no great loss, for he could not see…

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