Ca n't I help you to get out of this chimney ? '' said Tom . `` No , '' interposed the truncheon ; `` he has come to the place where everybody must help themselves ; and he will find it out , I hope , before he has done with me . '' `` Oh , yes , '' said Grimes , `` of course it 's me . Did I ask to be brought here into the prison ? Did I ask to be set to sweep your foul chimneys ? Did I ask to have lighted straw put under me to make me go up ? Did I ask to stick fast in the very first chimney of all , because it was so shamefully clogged up with soot ? Did I ask to stay here -- I do n't know how long -- a hundred years , I do believe , and never get my pipe , nor my beer , nor nothing fit for a beast , let alone a man ? '' `` No , '' answered a solemn voice behind . `` No more did Tom , when you behaved to him in the very same way . '' It was Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid . And , when the truncheon saw her , it started bolt upright -- Attention ! -- and made such a low bow , that if it had not been full of the spirit of justice , it must have tumbled on its end , and probably hurt its one eye . And Tom made his bow too . `` Oh , ma'am , '' he said , `` do n't think about me ; that 's all past and gone , and good times and bad times and all times pass over . But may not I help poor Mr. Grimes ? May n't I try and get some of these bricks away , that he may move his arms ? '' `` You may try , of course , '' she said . So Tom pulled and tugged at the bricks : but he could not move one .
And then he tried XXXXX wipe Mr. Grimes ' face : but the soot would not come off .
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