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which it turned ; and upon this projecting piece he
fixed a large reel. Then, having put the wheel in
its place, he asked his father for sixpence, part of
which he laid out ona large ball of pack-thread,
The outside end of the ball he fastened to the reel,
then threw the ball through the open window into
his room, and there undid it from the inside end,
laying the thread in coils on the floor. When it
was time to go to bed, he ran out and turned the
water first into the garden, and then into the new
_channel; when suddenly the wheel began to spin
about, and wind the pack-thread on to the reel.
He ran to his room, and undressed faster than he
had ever done before, tied the other end of the
thread around his wrist, and, although kept awake
much longer than usual by his excitement, at
length fell fast asleep, and dreamed that the thread
had waked him, and drawn him to the window,
_where he saw the water-wheel flashing like a fire-
wheel, and the water rushing away from under it
in a green flame. When he did wake it was broad
day; the coils of pack-thread were lying on the
floor scarcely diminished ; the brook was singing
in the garden, and when he went to the window,
he saw the wheel spinning merrily round. He
dressed in haste, ran out, and found that the thread
had got entangled amongst the bushes on its way
to the wheel, and had stuck fast; whereupon the
wheel had broken it to get loose, and had been