101

Tom had never seen a lobster before 113

The fairies came flying in at the window and brought her
such a pretty pair of wings 126

A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand 146

Tom found that the isle stood all on pillars, and that its
roots were full of caves 151

He crept away among the rocks, and got to the cabinet, and
behold! it was open 172

There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the
Allalonestone, all alone 201

The most beautiful bird of paradise 210

"That's Mother Carey" 219

Pandora and her box 224

"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.

CHAPTER I

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 to 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. And he laughed the other half of the day, when he was
tossing halfpennies with the other boys, or playing leap-frog over