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.