Water babies exist.
Of course, they don’t exist in the manner conceived of by the Reverend Charles Kingsley in his 1863 children’s story. He used a corrupted version of nature as a morality play about redemption. But, we don’t need to reduce nature to a metaphor, we can look out onto the Lake in the spring and delight in real water babies. A few are below.
Sometimes momma merganser has come by with over a dozen chicks. Yet, I am happy to see one.
