Water baby Tom (6)

Water baby Tom (6)

How many chimney he swept I cannot say, but he swept so many that he got quite tired, and puzzled too.
For they were not like the town flues to which he was accustomed, but such as you would find ー if you would only get up them and look, which perhaps you would not like to do ー in old country houses ; large and crooked chimneys, which had been altered again and again, till they ran into one another.

So Tom fairly lost his way in them, not that he cared much for that, though he was in pitchy darkness, for he was as much at home in a chimney as a mole is underground ; but at last, coming down, as he thought, the right chimney, he came down the wrong one.

And he found himself standing on the hearthrug in a room the like of which he had never seen before.

The room was all dressed in white; white window curtains, white bed curtain, white furniture, and white walls, with just a few lines of pink here and there.



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