Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: The water-babiesMacmillan and Company, 1895 |
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... - BABIES A Fairy Tale for a Land - Baby BY CHARLES KINGSLEY WITH ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS BY LINLEY SAMBOURNE London MACMILLAN AND CO . AND NEW YORK 1895 All rights reserved First Edition 1863. Second Edition 1864. Third Edition 1869 .
... - BABIES A Fairy Tale for a Land - Baby BY CHARLES KINGSLEY WITH ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS BY LINLEY SAMBOURNE London MACMILLAN AND CO . AND NEW YORK 1895 All rights reserved First Edition 1863. Second Edition 1864. Third Edition 1869 .
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... hundred and sixty - five days ; and why every one does not get up then , I never could tell , save that they are all determined to spoil their nerves and their complexions by doing all night what they might just as well do all day . But ...
... hundred and sixty - five days ; and why every one does not get up then , I never could tell , save that they are all determined to spoil their nerves and their complexions by doing all night what they might just as well do all day . But ...
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... hundred thousand pounds or so , in building , to please them and not himself . But he always put them off , like a canny North - countryman as he was . One wanted him to build a Gothic house , but he said he was no Goth ; and another to ...
... hundred thousand pounds or so , in building , to please them and not himself . But he always put them off , like a canny North - countryman as he was . One wanted him to build a Gothic house , but he said he was no Goth ; and another to ...
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... hundreds of feet below him , he could see a clear stream glance . Oh , if he could but get down to that stream ! Then , by the stream , he saw the roof of a little cottage , and a little garden set out in squares and beds . And there ...
... hundreds of feet below him , he could see a clear stream glance . Oh , if he could but get down to that stream ! Then , by the stream , he saw the roof of a little cottage , and a little garden set out in squares and beds . And there ...
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... hundred feet of steep heather , mixed up with loose brown gritstone , as rough as a file ; which was not pleasant to his poor little heels , as he came bump , stump , jump , down the steep . And still he thought he could throw a stone ...
... hundred feet of steep heather , mixed up with loose brown gritstone , as rough as a file ; which was not pleasant to his poor little heels , as he came bump , stump , jump , down the steep . And still he thought he could throw a stone ...
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