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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

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THE WATER-BABIES

A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

BY

CHARLES KINGSLEY

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY
WARWICK GOBLE



MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1922

First Published 1863
Edition with 32 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble, Crown 4to, 1909
With 16 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble, Demy 8vo, October 1910
Reprinted November 1910, 1912
With 16 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble, Medium 8vo, 1922

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

TO

MY YOUNGEST SON


GRENVILLE ARTHUR


AND



TO ALL OTHER GOOD LITTLE BOYS



COME READ ME MY RIDDLE, EACH GOOD LITTLE MAN;
IF YOU CANNOT READ IT, NO GROWN-UP FOLK CAN.



Contents


ILLUSTRATIONS

  FACING PAGE
The thing whirred up into the air, and hung poised on its wings,  . . . a dragon fly,  . . . the king of all the flies.—p. 74
Frontispiece
In rushed a stout old nurse from the next room
20
Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child
32
A quiet, silent, rich, happy place
35
She was the Queen of them all
44
From which great trout rushed out on Tom
88
He watched the moonlight on the rippling river
101
Tom had never seen a lobster before
113
The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings
126
A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand
146
Tom found that the isle stood all on pillars, and that its roots were full of caves
151
He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! it was open
172
There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone
201
The most beautiful bird of paradise
210
"That's Mother Carey"

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