Why dost not eat thy bread ? '' `` I ca n't . '' `` It 's good enough , for I made it myself . '' `` I ca n't , '' said Tom , and he laid his head on his knees , and then asked - `` Is it Sunday ? '' `` No , then ; why should it be ? '' `` Because I hear the church-bells ringing so . '' `` Bless thy pretty heart ! The bairn 's sick . Come wi ' me , and I 'll hap thee up somewhere . If thou wert a bit cleaner I 'd put thee in my own bed , for the Lord 's sake . But come along here . '' But when Tom tried to get up , he was so tired and giddy that she had to help him and lead him . She put him in an outhouse upon soft sweet hay and an old rug , and bade him sleep off his walk , and she would come to him when school was over , in an hour 's time . And so she went in again , expecting Tom to fall fast asleep at once . 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 and be washed ; '' and then that he heard the Irishwoman saying , `` Those that wish to be clean , clean they will be . '' And then he heard the church-bells ring so loud , close to him too , that he was sure it must be Sunday , in spite of what the old dame had said ; and he would go to church , and see what a church was like inside , for he had never been in one , poor little fellow , in all his life . But the people would never let him come in , all over soot and dirt like that . He must go to the river and wash first . And he said out loud again and again , though being half asleep he did not know it , `` I must be clean , I must be clean . ''
And all of a sudden he found himself , not in the outhouse on the hay , but in the middle XXXXX a meadow , over the road , with the stream just before him , saying continually , `` I must be clean , I must be clean . ''
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