Front matter
Reading edition
Transcribed from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE WATER BABIES
A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
BY CHARLES KINGSLEY
NEW EDITION WITH ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS BY LINLEY SAMBOURNE
London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1889
All rights reserved
Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh
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.
“I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined; In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Being sad thoughts to the mind.
“To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think, What man has made of man.”
Wordsworth.