Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: The water-babiesMacmillan and Company, 1895 |
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... playing leap - frog over the posts , or bowling stones at the horses ' legs as they trotted by , which last was ex- cellent fun , when there was a wall at hand behind which to hide . As for chimney - sweeping , and being hungry , and ...
... playing leap - frog over the posts , or bowling stones at the horses ' legs as they trotted by , which last was ex- cellent fun , when there was a wall at hand behind which to hide . As for chimney - sweeping , and being hungry , and ...
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... play cards for silver money , and wear velveteens and ankle - jacks , and keep a white bull - dog with one gray ear , and carry her puppies in his pocket , just like a man . And he would have apprentices , one , two , three , if he ...
... play cards for silver money , and wear velveteens and ankle - jacks , and keep a white bull - dog with one gray ear , and carry her puppies in his pocket , just like a man . And he would have apprentices , one , two , three , if he ...
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... away by the sea . And Tom asked her about the sea ; and she told him how it rolled and roared over the rocks in winter nights , and lay still in the bright summer days , for the children to bathe and play 10 CHAP . THE WATER - BABIES.
... away by the sea . And Tom asked her about the sea ; and she told him how it rolled and roared over the rocks in winter nights , and lay still in the bright summer days , for the children to bathe and play 10 CHAP . THE WATER - BABIES.
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Charles Kingsley. summer days , for the children to bathe and play in it ; and many a story more , till Tom longed to go and see the sea , and bathe in it likewise . At last , at the bottom of a hill , they came to a spring ; not such a ...
Charles Kingsley. summer days , for the children to bathe and play in it ; and many a story more , till Tom longed to go and see the sea , and bathe in it likewise . At last , at the bottom of a hill , they came to a spring ; not such a ...
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... Play by me , bathe in me , mother and child . Dank and foul , dank and foul , By the smoky town in its murky cowl ; Foul and dank , foul and dank , By wharf and sewer and slimy bank ; Darker and darker the farther I go , Baser and baser ...
... Play by me , bathe in me , mother and child . Dank and foul , dank and foul , By the smoky town in its murky cowl ; Foul and dank , foul and dank , By wharf and sewer and slimy bank ; Darker and darker the farther I go , Baser and baser ...
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