He did not know that it was three hundred feet below . You would have been giddy , perhaps , at looking down : but Tom was not . He was a brave little chimney-sweep ; and when he found himself on the top of a high cliff , instead of sitting down and crying for his baba -LRB- though he never had had any baba to cry for -RRB- , he said , `` Ah , this will just suit me ! '' though he was very tired ; and down he went , by stock and stone , sedge and ledge , bush and rush , as if he had been born a jolly little black ape , with four hands instead of two . And all the while he never saw the Irishwoman coming down behind him . But he was getting terribly tired now . The burning sun on the fells had sucked him up ; but the damp heat of the woody crag sucked him up still more ; and the perspiration ran out of the ends of his fingers and toes , and washed him cleaner than he had been for a whole year . But , of course , he dirtied everything , terribly as he went . There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since . And there have been more black beetles in Vendale since than ever were known before ; all , of course , owing to Tom 's having blacked the original papa of them all , just as he was setting off to be married , with a sky-blue coat and scarlet leggins , as smart as a gardener 's dog with a polyanthus in his mouth . At last he got to the bottom . But , behold , it was not the bottom -- as people usually find when they are coming down a mountain . For at the foot of the crag were heaps and heaps of fallen limestone of every size from that of your head to that of a stage-waggon , with holes between them full of sweet heath-fern ; and before Tom got through them , he was out in the bright sunshine again ; and then he felt , once for all and suddenly , as people generally do , that he was b-e-a-t , beat . You must expect to be beat a few times in your life , little man , if you live such a life as a man ought to live , let you be as strong and healthy as you may : and when you are , you will find it a very ugly feeling . I hope that that day you may have a stout staunch friend by you who is not beat ; for , if you have not , you had best lie where you are , and wait for better times , as poor Tom did . He could not get on . The sun was burning , and yet he felt chill all over . He was quite empty , and yet he felt quite sick . There was but two hundred yards of smooth pasture between him and the cottage , and yet he could not walk down it . He could hear the stream murmuring only one field beyond it , and yet it seemed to him as if it was a hundred miles off .
He lay down on the grass till the beetles ran over him , and the flies settled XXXXX his nose .
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