Water baby Tom (16)

Water baby Tom (16)

And He had not been in it two minutes before he fell asleep, into the quietest, sunniest, coziest sleep that ever he had in his life ; and he dreamt about the green meadows by which he had walked that morning, and the tall elm trees, and the sleeping cows ; and after that he dreamt of nothing at all.

The reason of his falling into such a delightful sleep is very simple.
It was merely that the fairies took him.



And now comes the most wonderful part of this wonderful story.

Tom, when he woke, for, of course, he woke, found himself swimming about in the stream, being about four inches long, and having a set of gills which he mistook for  lace frill, till he pulled at them, found he hurt himself, and made up his mind that they were part of himself and best left alone.



In fact the fairies had turned him into a water baby.

A water baby ?
You never heard of a water baby ?

Perhaps not.
That is the very reason why this story was written.

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