With a cry, he put his fingers in his mouth to ease the pain and burned his tongue. (Page 131).[ToList]
The Water-Babe[ToC]
Floating in a basket on the River Nile, Princess Bathia, the daughter of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, found a tiny little water-babe. Princess Bathia was a widow and had no children, and she was so delighted that she took the child home to the palace and brought it up as her own. She called the babe Moses.