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قراءة كتاب The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
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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
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
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
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.
IF YOU CANNOT READ IT, NO GROWN-UP FOLK CAN.
Contents
CHAPTER I |
CHAPTER II |
CHAPTER III |
CHAPTER IV |
CHAPTER V |
CHAPTER VI |
CHAPTER VII |
CHAPTER VIII and LAST |
MORAL |
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
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Frontispiece |
In rushed a stout old nurse from the next room
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20 |
Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child
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32 |
A quiet, silent, rich, happy place
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35 |
She was the Queen of them all
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44 |
From which great trout rushed out on Tom
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88 |
He watched the moonlight on the rippling river
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101 |
Tom had never seen a lobster before
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113 |
The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings
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126 |
A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand
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146 |
Tom found that the isle stood all on pillars, and that its roots were full of caves
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151 |
He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! it was open
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172 |
There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone
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201 |
The most beautiful bird of paradise
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210 |
"That's Mother Carey"
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