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The water-babies (1916)

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, ill · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 82

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so tiredand giddy that she had to help him and lead him. She put him in an outhouse upon soft sweet hayand an old rug, and bade him sleep off his walk, andshe would come to him when school was over, in anhours time. And so she went in again, expecting Tom to fallfast asleep at once. But Tom did not… … way, and felt that he get into and cool and then asleep, and he heard the little crying to him, go and be washed; heard the Irish- [73 ] THE WATER-BABIES woman saying, -Those that wish to be clean, cleanthey will be. And then he heard the church-bellsring so loud, close to him too, that he was sure…

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