Water baby Tom (14)

Water baby Tom (14)



" What are thou, and what do want ? " cried old dame.
" A chimney-sweep ! Away with thee. I'll have no sweep here. "

" Water, " said poor little Tom, quite faint.

The old dame looke at him through her spectacles one minute and two, and three; and then she said:
" He's sick; and a bairn's a bairn, sweep or none. "

" God forgive me ! " and she put by her spectacles, and rose, an came to Tom.
" Water's bad for thee; I'll give thee milk. "

Tom drank the milk off at one draught.

" Bless thy pretty heart ! Come with me, and I'll have thee up somewhere. "

She put him in an outhouse upon soft sweet hay and an old rug, and bade him sleep.

But Tom did not fall asleep.

Instead of it he turned and tossed and kicked about in the strangest way, and felt so hot all over that he longed to get into the river and cool himself.

And then he fell half asleep, and dreamt that he heard the little white lady crying to him,
" Oh, you're so dirty; go an be washed; "

And then he heard the Irishwoman saying, " Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be. "

And he said out aloud again, though being half asleep he did  not know it,
" I'll must be clean, I must be clean. "

(14/16→17)
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