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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... give satisfaction. And Tom thought so likewise, and, indeed, would have done and behaved his best, even without being knocked down. For, of all places upon earth, Harthover Place (which he had never seen) was the most wonderful, and, of ...
... give satisfaction. And Tom thought so likewise, and, indeed, would have done and behaved his best, even without being knocked down. For, of all places upon earth, Harthover Place (which he had never seen) was the most wonderful, and, of ...
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... give chase, for when she had put her head out of the window, her night-wig fell into the garden, and she had to ring up her lady's-maid, and send her down for it privately, which quite put her out of the running, so that she came in ...
... give chase, for when she had put her head out of the window, her night-wig fell into the garden, and she had to ring up her lady's-maid, and send her down for it privately, which quite put her out of the running, so that she came in ...
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... give me a bit and a sup." So he set off again, to look for the church, for he was sure that he heard the bells quite plain. And in a minute more, when he looked round, he stopped again, and said, "Why, what a big place the world is ...
... give me a bit and a sup." So he set off again, to look for the church, for he was sure that he heard the bells quite plain. And in a minute more, when he looked round, he stopped again, and said, "Why, what a big place the world is ...
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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