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From:   Water Babies.   A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby.  By Charles Kingsley
London:  MacMillan and Co., Limited,  1909 & 1927.   (Out of copyright.)

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Frontispiece: <br /><br />"The thing whirred up into the air, and hung poised on its wings, . . . a dragon fly, . . . the king of all the flies."<br /><br /> . . . page 74

<br /><br />"She walked beside Tom and talked to him."<br /><br /> . . . page 8

<br /><br />"In rushed a stout old nurse from the next room." <br /><br /> . . . page 20

<br /><br />"By the smoky town in its murky cowl." <br /><br /> . . . page 31

<br /><br />"Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child."<br /><br /> . . . page 32

<br /><br />"A quiet, silent, rich, happy place."<br /><br /> . . . page 35

<br /><br />"She was the Queen of them all."<br /><br /> . . . page 44

<br /><br />"C'est l'amour, l'amour, l'amour<br /> Qui fait le monde a la ronde."<br /><br /> . . . page 46

<br /><br />"When all the world is young."<br /><br /> . . . page 62

<br /><br />"When all the world is old."<br /><br /> . . . page 62

<br /><br />"From which great trout rushed out on Tom."<br /><br /> . . . page 88

<br /><br />"He watched the moonlight on the rippling river."<br /><br /> . . . page 101

<br /><br />"Past the great town, with its warfs, and mills, and tall smoking chimneys."<br /><br /> . . . page 106

<br /><br />"We float out our life in the mid-ocean, with the warm sunshine above our heads."<br /><br /> . . . page 109

<br /><br />"And sit upon a point of rock, among the shining sea-weeds."<br /><br /> . . . page 112

<br /><br />"Tom had never seen a lobster before."<br /><br /> . . . page 113

"The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings."<br /><br /> . . . page 126

"A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand."<br /><br /> . . . page 146

"Tom found that the isle stood all on pillars, and that its roots were full of caves."<br /><br /> . . . page 151

"And frightened the crabs, to make them hide in the sand."<br /><br /> . . . page 154

"He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! it was open."<br /><br /> . . . page 172

"I always forgive every one the moment they tell me the truth of their own accord."<br /><br /> . . . page 177

"The ladies all gathered gossamer in autumn."<br /><br /> . . . page 187

"Underneath the trees lions were prowling about."<br /><br /> . . . page 190

<br /><br />"There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone"<br /><br /> . . . page 201

<br /><br />"The most beautiful bird of paradise"<br /><br /> . . . page 210

<br /><br />"He saw the fairies come up from below, and carry baby and cradle gently down in their soft arms."<br /><br /> . . . page 213

<br /><br />"All round it the ice cliffs rose, in walls and spires and battlements."<br /><br /> . . . page 218

<br /><br />"'That's Mother Carey.'"<br /><br /> . . . page 219

<br /><br />"Pandora and her box."<br /><br /> . . . page 224

<br /><br />"At last he came to the great Sea-serpent himself, lying dead at the bottom."<br /><br /> . . . page 232

<br /><br />"Found himself tight in the legs of the most wonderful bogy which he had ever seen."<br /><br /> . . . page 233











   

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