The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

by Charles Kingsley · language: en

THE WATER-BABIES A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby BY CHARLES KINGSLEY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY WARWICK GOBLE MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1922 First Published 1863 Edition with 32 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble, Crown 4to, 1909 With 16 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble, Demy 8vo, October 1910 Reprinted November 1910, 1912 With 16 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble, Medium 8vo, 1922 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN TO MY YOUNGEST SON GRENVILLE ARTHUR AND TO ALL OTHER GOOD LITTLE BOYS COME READ ME MY RIDDLE, EACH GOOD LITTLE MAN; IF YOU CANNOT READ IT, NO GROWN-UP FOLK CAN.

ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE The thing whirred up into the air, and hung poised on its wings, ... a dragon fly, ... the king of all the flies.--p.

74 Frontispiece The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of wings 126 A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand 146 Tom found that the isle stood all on pillars, and that its roots were full of caves 151 He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and behold! it was open 172 There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the "I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined; In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

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