The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-babyWessels, 1900 - 231 páginas The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby. |
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... strange murmuring noise , which followed them all the way . So much puzzled , that at last he took courage to ask the keeper what it was . He spoke very civilly , and called him Sir , for he was horribly afraid of him , which pleased ...
... strange murmuring noise , which followed them all the way . So much puzzled , that at last he took courage to ask the keeper what it was . He spoke very civilly , and called him Sir , for he was horribly afraid of him , which pleased ...
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... strange woman was ; and all agreed , for want of any- thing better to say , that she must be in league with Tom . But when she came to the plantation , they lost sight of her ; and they could do no less . For she went quietly over the ...
... strange woman was ; and all agreed , for want of any- thing better to say , that she must be in league with Tom . But when she came to the plantation , they lost sight of her ; and they could do no less . For she went quietly over the ...
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... strange place , and the cool fresh bracing air . But he went more and more slowly as he got higher up the hill ; for now the ground grew very bad indeed . Instead of soft turf and springy heather , he met great patches of flat limestone ...
... strange place , and the cool fresh bracing air . But he went more and more slowly as he got higher up the hill ; for now the ground grew very bad indeed . Instead of soft turf and springy heather , he met great patches of flat limestone ...
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... strange game too , " said he . " Blessings on your heart , and what makes you look so sad the morn ? " " " I'm looking for a lost child , a chimney - sweep , that is run away . " 66 Oh , Harthover , Harthover , " says she , " ye were ...
... strange game too , " said he . " Blessings on your heart , and what makes you look so sad the morn ? " " " I'm looking for a lost child , a chimney - sweep , that is run away . " 66 Oh , Harthover , Harthover , " says she , " ye were ...
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... strange things cannot happen , till he has seen what strange things do happen every day . If he says that things cannot degrade , that is , change downwards into lower forms , ask him , who told him that water - babies were lower than ...
... strange things cannot happen , till he has seen what strange things do happen every day . If he says that things cannot degrade , that is , change downwards into lower forms , ask him , who told him that water - babies were lower than ...
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afraid asked baby backstairs beasts beautiful Bedonebyasyoudid began birch-rod birds bogies brains Brandan catch caught chimney chimney-sweep clean crag creatures cried crying dirty dovekies dragon-fly Epimetheus eyes fairy fancy fast feet fellow fish folks frightened Gairfowl gentleman grew Grimes grow Harthover head heard Hellebore hippopotamus hole Holothurian hundred Irishwoman jumped knew lady laughed legs little boys little children little Ellie live lobster looked Mother Carey mouth nasty naughty never night nose once otter perhaps petrels point of rock poor little pretty professor rocks round salmon seen Shiny Wall Sir John sleep stone story strange stream stupid sure swam sweet tail tell things thought thunderbox told Tom longed Tom waited Tom's took trout truncheon turned ugly Vendale washed water-babies wings wonderful