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'.
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