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The Water Babies summary# 4

         Tom is as happy as can be - but is soon up to his old tricks of tormenting the water-animals.
Then he met Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, who serves out punishments to all the adults in the human world who have been cruel to children. Then Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby comes to visit the water-babies. She would take care all the water-babies like singing them songs every night. After Tom gets himself into more trouble. He is taken by Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, to be taught by Ellie. Ellie had turned into a water-baby by fairies, after falling into a rock-pool.

           After many years of teaching by Ellie, Tom is sent on his own journey to'somewhere he doesn't like to go and to help someone he doesn't like at all. He has to journey to the 'other-end-of-nowhere' to find Mr. Grimes and help him. Buy to do this quest he must first go to Shiny wall, and through the white gate that was never opened. The fairy instructs Tom that after he arrives to the Peacepool, Mother Carey in her Haven will tell him the way to 'the other-end-of-nowhere' so he can find Mr. Grimes.

With the help of the 'beasts in the sea and the birds in the air', Tom makes his journey to 'the other-end-of-nowhere', seeing many wonderful things on the way and makes new friends, especially with a dog, who helps him on the last part of his journey. Eventually he comes to find Mr. Grimes, who has now himself become a chimney sweep. From the lessons that Tom has learnt as a Water-baby and from Ellie, he comes to 'help someone he doesn't like'.

At the end of the story, Tom is  allowed to go 'home' with Ellie on Sundays. At last he eventually became a 'great man of science'.

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The Water Babies summary # 3

          Sir John, the Harthover masion's owner who hired Mr. Grimes to do chimney sweeping at his masion, regretted and blamed himself bitterly for being the cause for Tom had lost in the wilderness.  At Tom's side of the story, he was cleaner and happier than he was before; now he forgot his old toubles, being tried, hungry, or beaten by his own master. At the water world Tom observed the environment, he saw some weird creatures that doesn't exist on the land that he used to live.

          Soon Tom had learned the water world language. Unfortunately, he was very fond of hunting and teasing animals. The water animals soon stay away from Tom and he becomes very lonely, until he happens upon a dragonfly, who becomes his friend and tells him stories. Some of the water-creatures, however, are not so pleasant. He crosses paths with an otter and her family, who are intent on 'salmon for breakfast'. Later, he comes across them again, when he tries to help a 'clumsy' lobster who has been caught in a fisherman's pot. The otter wants the lobster for dinner too!

              After a close escape helping the lobster, Tom almost immediately comes across a fellow water-baby - 'A real live water-baby, sitting on the white sand.' They meet and Tom finds his whole 'water-baby' family and is taken to their home - St. Brandan's fairy isle. The water-babies in this chapter are shown to be 'all the little children whom the fairies carry off because people are not kind to them in the land-world'.

The Water Babies summary# 2

        After wandering in the wood,  Tom needed for a glass of water to cool his baked lips. At the peak of the mountain ;looking down, Tom saw a little cottage near the clear stream. Tom hurrily went down in the belief that he could get there in five minutes, when it actually mile off and a thousand feet down. When he reach at the base of the mountain, he ran through the field and terrace before he reach his destination.

        Tom came slowly up to the open door and then peeped in, half alfraid. There sat by the empty fireplace, an old woman in red petticoat and cubby little children. Tom hesitated whether he should turn back or go in and ask for a glass of water and some food. But before Tom could make up his mind, the children started at Tom's black figure and they cried.The old woman startled. Tom ask her for the water, but she gave him milk and a bit of bread instead. Then the old woman ask Tom some question doubting if he was telling the truth. But at the end of coversation she believed him. The old women put Tom in an out house and let him sleep on the hay and an old rug. The she went out from the outhouse.

        Tom did not fall asleep. Turning and Tossing, He felt so hot all over that he longed to bathe himself in the cool river. Tom somnambulate. Then found himself standing before a clear stream. Desiring to be clean, Tom take off his clothes and jump into the river. All this time, he had not notice that the Irishwoman had followed him. She had stepped into the water and the fairies came to her for she was the Queen for them all. The fairies made Tom fell fast asleep there at the stream.

        The old woman came back to look at Tom, but found no one. Then she began to think if Tom had tricked her. But she altered her mind the next day. When people from the Harthover came to her and told her that a chimney sweeper is missing, after realizing the they have mistook Tom for a theif. At Tom's side, when he woke, he found himself swimming in the stream in a young baby form. In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby.

The Water Babies Summary #1

Tom, a 10-years-old chimney sweeper, lived in a great town in the North country. He could not read nor write; and he never washed himself, for there was no water up the court where he lived. One day Mr. Grimes, Tom’s master, was hire to do the chimney sweeping task at Harthover House. On the their journey to Harthover House, they met a mysterious Irishwoman, who hold a secret about Mr. Grimes. While Tom was sweeping chimney , he inadvertently came down the wrong chimney, there tom encountered  an upper-class girl named Ellie, who was sleeping on her snow-white bed. Looking around, he saw his reflection in a great mirror. Tom, for the first time in his life, found out that he was dirty. When Ellie woke up and screamed after seeing Tom. Tom was being chased out of her house. He got into the wood and caught in a trap, but he managed to escape anyway. Tom decided to continue his escape without knowing that the Irish woman had been following him is silence. While he was walking on the hill, Tom enjoyed the sight of scenery and observing many kinds of animals.

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