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| 36309 | (Illustrated in Black and White and Color) |
| 25564 | (Illustrated in Color) |
THE WATER-BABIES
The
Water-Babies
by
Illustrated by
Jessie Willcox Smith
New York
Dodd, Mead & Company
Publishers
Illustrated by
Jessie Willcox Smith
New York
Dodd, Mead & Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1916,
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
Printed in U. S. A.
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
Printed in U. S. A.
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. |  |
INTRODUCTION
"It was in 1863 that The Water-Babies was written,showing the naturalist in the fulness of hisstrength, fearlessly, yet tenderly, playing with thetremendous results of advanced science in the nineteenthcentury. . . .
"The writing of the book was the outcome of agentle rem
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