So , May and Edward get up , amid great applause , to dance alone ; and Bertha plays her liveliest tune . Well ! if you 'll believe me , they had not been dancing five minutes , when suddenly the Carrier flings his pipe away , takes Dot round the waist , dashes out into the room , and starts off with her , toe and heel , quite wonderfully . Tackleton no sooner sees this than he skims across to Mrs. Fielding , takes her round the waist , and follows suit . Old Dot no sooner sees this than up he is , all alive , whisks off Mrs. Dot into the middle of the dance , and is foremost there . Caleb no sooner sees this than he clutches Tilly Slowboy by both hands , and goes off at score ; Miss Slowboy , firm in the belief that diving hotly in among the other couples , and effecting any number of concussions with them , is your only principle of footing it . Hark ! how the Cricket joins the music with its Chirp , Chirp , Chirp ; and how the kettle hums ! * * * * * But what is this ? Even as I listen to them blithely , and turn towards Dot , for one last glimpse of a little figure very pleasant to me , she and the rest have vanished into air , and I am left alone . THE WATER BABIES CHAPTER I `` I heard a thousand blended notes , While in a grove I sate reclined ; In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind . `` To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think , What man has made of man . '' WORDSWORTH . Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep , and his name was Tom . That is a short name , and you have heard it before , so you will not have much trouble in remembering it . He lived in a great town in the North country , where there were plenty of chimneys to sweep , and plenty of money for Tom to earn and his master to spend . He could not read nor write , and did not care to do either ; and he never washed himself , for there was no water up the court where he lived . He had never been taught to say his prayers . He never had heard of God , or of Christ , except in words which you never have heard , and which it would have been well if he had never heard . He cried half his time , and laughed the other half .
He cried when he had XXXXX climb the dark flues , rubbing his poor knees and elbows raw ; and when the soot got into his eyes , which it did every day in the week ; and when his master beat him , which he did every day in the week ; and when he had not enough to eat , which happened every day in the week likewise .
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