The Water Babies
THE WATER BABIES
HE WAS A LITTLE CONCEITED ABOUT HIS FINE COLOURS AND HIS LARGE WINGS
THE
WATER-BABIES
BY
with illustrations by
BOSTON & NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
First Published 1915.
Printed in Great Britain.
CONTENTS
Chapter (not listed in original)
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318 |
LIST OF COLOURED PLATES
He was a little conceited about his fine Colours and his large Wings | Frontispiece | |
There are Land Babies—then why not Water-Babies? | Facing page | 66 |
Down to the Sea, down to the Sea! | ,, | 100 |
But the Fairies took to the Water-Babies | ,, | 176 |
The other Children warned him | ,, | 180 |
And Tom looked up into her Eyes | ,, | 192 |
There would be a New Water-Baby in St. Brandan's Isle | ,, | 248 |
I have been sitting here waiting for you many a Hundred Years | ,, | 314 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Playing Leap frog over the Posts | 2 |
And some because they want to climb Alps | 6 |
On they went | 7 |
Trudging along with a Bundle at her Back | 9 |
And began dipping his ugly Head into the Spring | 12 |
"I was told to expect thee" | 14 |
And bade them begin in a lofty and tremendous Voice | 19 |
Up jumped the little white Lady in her Bed | 23 |
And gave Chase to poor Tom | 25 |
And gave Chase to Tom likewise | 26 |
Then he saw Lizards | 31 |
Play by me, bathe in me, Mother and Child | 37 |
The Girls began to cry | 44 |
The Boys began to laugh | 45 |
"What art thou, and what dost want?" cried the old Dame | 46 |
She had stepped down into the cool clear Water | 50 |
They may be just what makes the World go round | 53 |
Somebody would have caught one at least | 61 |
People call them Pterodactyles | 65 |
No Water-babies, indeed? | 66 |
Cousin Cramchild's Arguments | 67 |
Tom was quite alive, and cleaner, and merrier than he ever had been | 70 |
When all the World is young, Lad | 72 |
And every Lass a Queen | 74 |
And learn your Multiplication Table | 75 |
Not in entire Forgetfulness | 79 |
So he had no one to speak to or play with | 82 |
And jumped clean out of the Water | 85 |
But the Thing whirred up into the Air | 87 |
"Quick, Children; here is Something to eat, indeed" | 95 |
And clapped his little Hands | 109 |
What a well-bred old Salmon he was ! | 111 |
The wicked old Otter | 112 |
And perhaps he would never have found his Way, if the Fairies had not guided him | 113 |
Coasting along the Shore | 114 |
And sat upon a little Point of Rock | 117 |
He felt as strong, and light, and fresh, as if his Veins had run Champagne | 121 |
And he swam on to the Buoy, and got upon it | 123 |
And the Terns hovered over Tom | 125 |
Then there came in a great lazy Sunfish | 127 |
And a very distinguished Lobster he was | 130 |
Professor Ptthmllnsprts | 136 |
There used to be Children in the Water | 139 |
And cried all Day | 154 |
Spearing Eels and sneezing | 156 |
And became ever after a sadder and wiser Man | 159 |
And played Leap-frog with the Town Clerk | 165 |
A real live Water-baby sitting on the white Sand | 168 |
They did not want any Introductions there | 170 |
The Water-babies come inshore after every Storm | 173 |
And the Fishes told the Water-babies | 175 |
A very tremendous Lady she was | 180 |
Then she called up all the careless Nursery-maids | 186 |
More than half of them were nasty . . . old Monks | 187 |
Thou little Child | 196 |
He was all over Prickles | 202 |
"Dear me!" Said the little Girl; "why, I know you now" | 205 |
Tom asked her | 207 |
Ellie was quite surprised and sad | 210 |
He went to the top of the Water and began crying and screaming | 212 |
And bathed in the warm Springs | 215 |
In little beside a Cocked Hat and a pair of Straps, or some light Summer Tackle of that kind | 216 |
And they sat under the Flapdoodle Trees | 217 |
There were never such comfortable, easy-going, happy-go-lucky People in the World | 218 |
"You would have ended as an Eft in a Pond" | 224 |
"Come wander with me" she said | 226 |
So he asked the Beasts in the Sea | 228 |
And a very grand old Lady she was | 232 |
"Two little Birds they sat on a Stone" | 233 |
And they cawed and cawed | 240 |
Looking as meek and as neat as a Quakeress | 241 |
The Good Crow | 242 |
And fell down dead | 243 |
And turned into a Water-dog | 246 |
And ran over the Crests of the Waves | 247 |
And snapped at the Jelly-fish and the Mackerel | 248 |
But Epimetheus was a very slow Fellow | 258 |
Pandora | 260 |
Old Mother Shipton on her Broomstick | 263 |
He never turned his Head round once | 264 |
Ye are better than all the Ballads | 266 |
He came to the great Sea-serpent himself | 268 |
There Philosophers demonstrate | 275 |
He found Gotham, where the Wise Men live | 277 |
He had a great Pair of Spectacles on his Nose | 280 |
So he told him prettily enough, while the poor Turnip listened very carefully | 288 |
And fainted right away | 294 |
The Sun was drawing Water out of the Sea | 297 |
He saw before him a huge Building | 298 |
Till he saw running toward him, and shouting "Stop!" three or four People | 301 |
Out of the Top of it, his Head and Shoulders just showing, stuck poor Mr. Grimes | 302 |
So she tied the Bandage on his Eyes | 311 |
The first Thing which Tom saw was the black Cedars | 313 |
And put Tom's Dog up in his Place | 317 |
The End | 320 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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