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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 101