The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-babyThomas Y. Crowell, 1895 - 330 páginas A Victorian tale in which Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, is stolen by fairies and turned into a water-baby. |
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... side in order , and show good sport Iwith his hounds . But Tom and his master did not go in through the great iron gates , as if they had been dukes or bishops , but round the back way , and a very long way round it was ; and into a ...
... side in order , and show good sport Iwith his hounds . But Tom and his master did not go in through the great iron gates , as if they had been dukes or bishops , but round the back way , and a very long way round it was ; and into a ...
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... side ran the stream ; and above it , gray crag , gray down , gray stair , gray moor , walled up to heaven . A quiet , silent , rich , happy place , a narrow crack cut deep into the earth ; so deep and so out of the way that the bad ...
... side ran the stream ; and above it , gray crag , gray down , gray stair , gray moor , walled up to heaven . A quiet , silent , rich , happy place , a narrow crack cut deep into the earth ; so deep and so out of the way that the bad ...
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... side , she had stepped down into the cool , clear water ; and her shawl and her petticoat floated off her , and the green water- weeds floated round her sides , and the white water- lilies floated round her head , and the fairies of the ...
... side , she had stepped down into the cool , clear water ; and her shawl and her petticoat floated off her , and the green water- weeds floated round her sides , and the white water- lilies floated round her head , and the fairies of the ...
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... side by side between the limestone crags . And the dame decked it with garlands every Sunday , till she grew so old that she could not stir abroad ; then the little children decked it for her . And always she sang an old , old song , as ...
... side by side between the limestone crags . And the dame decked it with garlands every Sunday , till she grew so old that she could not stir abroad ; then the little children decked it for her . And always she sang an old , old song , as ...
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... side , and threw down into the water a long tap - root of flame . Tom , curious little rogue that he was , must needs go and see what it was ; so he swam to the shore , and met the light as it stopped over a shallow run at the edge of a ...
... side , and threw down into the water a long tap - root of flame . Tom , curious little rogue that he was , must needs go and see what it was ; so he swam to the shore , and met the light as it stopped over a shallow run at the edge of a ...
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afraid asked babies backstairs beasts beautiful beautiful creature Bedonebyasyoudid began birch-rod birds bogies Brandan butterwort catch caught chimney chimney-sweep clean crag creatures cried crying dirty dovekies Epimetheus eyes fairy fancy fellow fish folks frightened Gairfowl gentleman gray grew Grimes grow Harthover head heard Hellebore hippopotamus hole Holothurian hundred Irishwoman jumped knew lady laughed legs little boys little children little dear 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 strange stream stupid sure swam sweet tail tell things thought told Tom longed Tom waited Tom's took trout truncheon turned ugly Vendale water-babies whales wings wonderful
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