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EBOOK TOM THUMB ***


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TOM THUMB
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THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB _AND OTHER STORIES_
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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.
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