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Copy photograph of Jessie Willcox Smith, published in Good Housekeeping,
v. 65, p. 32, November 1917.
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First Smith-Illustrated edition of
The Water-babies by Charles Kingsley.
New York: Dodd and Mead, 1916
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"He looked up at the broad yellow moon
and thought that she looked at him."
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"No. She cannot be dirty. She never
could have been dirty."
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"He felt how comfortable it was to have
nothing on him but himself."
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"Oh, don't hurt me! cried Tom. I only want
to look at you; you are so handsome."
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"Tom sat upon the buoy long days,
long weeks, looking out to sea."
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"He felt the net very heavy; and lifted it out
quickly, with Tom all entangled in the meshes."
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"Tom reached and clawed down the hole
after him . . . the clumsy lobster
pulled him in head-foremost."
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"They hugged and kissed each other for ever
so long, they did not know why."
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"Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid. 'Little boys
who are only fit to play with sea-beasts
cannot go there,' she said."
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"And there he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone."
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"It took the form of the grandest
old lady he had ever seen."
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"You are our dear Mrs.
Doasyouwouldbedoneby."
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