`` 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 of a meadow , over the road , with the stream just before him , saying continually , `` I must be clean , I must be clean . '' He had got there on his own legs , between sleep and awake , as children will often get out of bed , and go about the room , when they are not quite well . But he was not a bit surprised , and went on to the bank of the brook , and lay down on the grass , and looked into the clear , clear limestone water , with every pebble at the bottom bright and clean , while the little silver trout dashed about in fright at the sight of his black face ; and he dipped his hand in and found it so cool , cool , cool ; and he said , `` I will be a fish ; I will swim in the water ; I must be clean , I must be clean . '' So he pulled off all his clothes in such haste that he tore some of them , which was easy enough with such ragged old things .
And he put his poor hot sore feet into the water ; and then his legs ; and the farther he went XXXXX , the more the church-bells rang in his head .
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