The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories

Book Id: WPLBN0000630501
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.4 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB In the days of King Arthur, Merlin, the famous enchanter, was out on a journey, and stopped one day at the cottage of an honest ploughman to ask for refreshment. The ploughman?s wife brought him some milk in a wooden bowl, and some brown bread on a wooden platter. Merlin could not help observing that, although everything within the cottage was particularly neat and in good order, the ploughman and his wife had the most sorrowful air, so he questioned them about the cause of their distress, and learned that they were miserable because they had no children. The poor woman declared that she would be the happiest creature in the world if she had but a son, although he were no bigger than his father?s thumb. Merlin was very much amused at the thought of a boy no bigger than a man?s thumb; and as soon as he returned home he sent for the Queen of the Fairies and related to her the desire of the ploughman and his wife to have a son the size of his father?s thumb.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The History Of Tom Thumb and Other Stories, 1 -- Anonymous, 1 -- THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB, 1 -- THE LION AND THE FOX, 4 -- CATCHING BLACKBIRDS, 5 -- THE DOG, 5