The Water BabiesThe Floating Press, 1 de out. de 2011 - 210 páginas Readers of every age will delight in this fantastical fairy tale from Charles Kingsley. Tom, a young chimney sweep, comes to a tragically untimely end and is transformed into a mystical creature known as a water baby that resides in a magical sub-aqueous environment. Despite its nineteenth-century vintage, this engrossing fable has important lessons to teach today's readers. |
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... find a hare or a rabbit on thee when thou comest back. I shall look sharp for one, I tell thee. " "Not if it's in the bottom of the soot-bag," quoth Grimes, and at that he laughed, and the keeper laughed and said: "If that's thy sort, I ...
... find a hare or a rabbit on thee when thou comest back. I shall look sharp for one, I tell thee. " "Not if it's in the bottom of the soot-bag," quoth Grimes, and at that he laughed, and the keeper laughed and said: "If that's thy sort, I ...
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... find— if you would only get up them and look, which perhaps you would not like to do—in old country-houses, large and crooked chimneys, which had been altered again and again, till they ran one into another, anastomosing (as Professor ...
... find— if you would only get up them and look, which perhaps you would not like to do—in old country-houses, large and crooked chimneys, which had been altered again and again, till they ran one into another, anastomosing (as Professor ...
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... find time, too, to stare about at the strange place, which was like a new world to him. He saw great spiders there, with crowns and crosses marked on their backs, who sat in the middle of their webs, and when they saw Tom coming, shook ...
... find time, too, to stare about at the strange place, which was like a new world to him. He saw great spiders there, with crowns and crosses marked on their backs, who sat in the middle of their webs, and when they saw Tom coming, shook ...
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... find that on the top of a limestone rock? Now and then he passed by a deep dark swallow-hole, going down into the earth, as if it was the chimney of some dwarfs house underground, and more than once, as he passed, he could hear water ...
... find that on the top of a limestone rock? Now and then he passed by a deep dark swallow-hole, going down into the earth, as if it was the chimney of some dwarfs house underground, and more than once, as he passed, he could hear water ...
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Chapter II | 31 |
Chapter III | 56 |
Chapter IV | 84 |
Chapter V | 115 |
Chapter VI | 141 |
Chapter VII | 163 |
Chapter VIII And Last | 191 |
Moral | 228 |
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afraid asked baby backstairs beasts beautiful Bedonebyasyoudid began birch-rod birds bogies Brandan catch caught chimney chimney-sweep clean crag creatures cried crying dirty dovekies dragon-fly Epimetheus eyes fairy fancy fast fellow find fine finger fire first fish five flew floated flowers fly folks frightened gentleman grew Grimes 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 Other-end-of-Nowhere otter perhaps petrels poor little pretty professor rocks round salmon seen Shiny Wall Sir John sleep stone strange stream stupid swam sweet tail tell things thought thunderbox told Tom longed Tom waited Tom's took trout truncheon turned ugly Vendale water-babies wings wonderful words