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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... mouth and a flower in his button-hole, like a king at the head of his army. Yes, there were good times coming, and, when his master let him have a pull at the leavings of his beer, Tom was the jolliest boy in the whole town. One day a ...
... mouth and a flower in his button-hole, like a king at the head of his army. Yes, there were good times coming, and, when his master let him have a pull at the leavings of his beer, Tom was the jolliest boy in the whole town. One day a ...
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... mouth, and the rest toddled after her, and into a dark crack in the rocks, and there was an end of the show. And next he had a fright, for, as he scrambled up a sandy brow— whirr-poof-poof-cock-cock-kick—something went off in his face ...
... mouth, and the rest toddled after her, and into a dark crack in the rocks, and there was an end of the show. And next he had a fright, for, as he scrambled up a sandy brow— whirr-poof-poof-cock-cock-kick—something went off in his face ...
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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