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

Author: Charles Kingsley
Warwick Goble

Release Date: May 23, 2008 [EBook #25564]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Cover]

[Illustration: "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 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_

In rushed a stout old nurse from the next room 20

Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child 32

A quiet, silent, rich, happy place 35

She was the Queen of them all 44

From which great trout rushed out on Tom 88

He watched the moonlight on the rippling river