`` Perhaps , '' he thought , `` the water has made him fall asleep , as it did me . '' Then he went nearer . He grew more and more curious , he could not tell why . He must go and look at him . He would go very quietly , of course ; so he swam round and round him , closer and closer ; and , as he did not stir , at last he came quite close and looked him in the face . The moon shone so bright that Tom could see every feature ; and , as he saw , he recollected , bit by bit , it was his old master , Grimes . Tom turned tail , and swam away as fast as he could . `` Oh dear me ! '' he thought , `` now he will turn into a water-baby . What a nasty troublesome one he will be ! And perhaps he will find me out , and beat me again . '' So he went up the river again a little way , and lay there the rest of the night under an alder root ; but , when morning came , he longed to go down again to the big pool , and see whether Mr. Grimes had turned into a water-baby yet . So he went very carefully , peeping round all the rocks , and hiding under all the roots . Mr. Grimes lay there still ; he had not turned into a water-baby . In the afternoon Tom went back again . He could not rest till he had found out what had become of Mr. Grimes . But this time Mr. Grimes was gone ; and Tom made up his mind that he was turned into a water-baby . He might have made himself easy , poor little man ; Mr. Grimes did not turn into a water-baby , or anything like one at all . But he did not make himself easy ; and a long time he was fearful lest he should meet Grimes suddenly in some deep pool . He could not know that the fairies had carried him away , and put him , where they put everything which falls into the water , exactly where it ought to be .
But , do you know , what had happened XXXXX Mr. Grimes had such an effect on him that he never poached salmon any more .
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