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If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + +Title: The History Of Tom Thumb and Other Stories + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: February 15, 2004 [eBook #11092] +[Most recently updated: February 26, 2021] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: The Internet Archive Children's Library, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB *** + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB +_AND OTHER STORIES_ + +[Illustration] + +_Profusely Illustrated_ + +CHICAGO +M. A. DONOHUE & CO. + + + + +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. + +[Illustration] + +The Queen of the Fairies promised that their wish should be granted. +And so it happened one day that the ploughman’s wife had a son exactly +of the size of his father’s thumb. While the mother was sitting up in +bed, admiring the child, the Queen of the Fairies appeared, and kissed +the infant, giving it the name of Tom Thumb, and summoned several +fairies to clothe her little favorite. + +Tom never grew any bigger; but, as he grew older, he became very +cunning and sly, which his mother did not sufficiently correct him for; +so that, when he was old enough to play with the boys for +cherry-stones, and had lost all his own, he used to creep into the +other boys’ bags, fill his pockets, and come out again to play. But one +day, as he was getting out of a bag of cherry-stones, the boy to whom +it belonged chanced to see him. + +[Illustration] + +“Ah, ah! my little Tom Thumb,” said the boy, “have I caught you at your +bad tricks at last? Now I will pay you off well for thieving.” + +Then drawing the string tight round his neck, and shaking the bag +heartily, the cherry stones bruised Tom’s limbs and body sadly, which +made him beg to be let out, and promise never to be guilty of such +doings any more. + +Shortly afterwards Tom’s mother was making a batter pudding, and, that +he might see how she mixed it, he climbed up to the edge of the bowl, +but his foot happening to slip he fell over head and ears into the +batter, and his mother not observing him, stirred him into the pudding +and popped it all into the pot to boil. The hot water made Tom kick and +struggle; and his mother, seeing the pudding jump up and down, thought +it was bewitched. A tinker was going by just at the time, so she gave +him the pudding, and he put it into his budget and walked away. As soon +as Tom could get the batter out of his mouth he began to cry aloud; +this so frightened the poor tinker that he flung the pudding over the +hedge. The pudding being broken by the fall Tom was released, and +walked home to his mother, who gave him a kiss and put him to bed. + +Tom Thumb’s mother once took him with her when she went to milk the +cow; it being a very windy day, she tied him with a needleful of thread +to a thistle. The cow, liking his oak-leaf hat, took him and the +thistle up at one mouthful. While the cow was chewing the thistle, Tom, +terrified at her great teeth, cried out, “Mother! mother!” + +[Illustration] + +“Where are you, Tommy, my dear Tommy?” said the mother. + +“Here, mother; here in the red cow’s mouth.” + +The mother began to cry and wring her hands; but the cow, surprised at +such odd noises in her throat, opened her mouth and let him drop out. +His mother clapped him into her apron and ran home with him. + +[Illustration] + +Tom’s father made him a whip of barley-straw to drive the cattle with, +and one day in the field Tom slipped into a deep furrow. A raven flying +over picked him up with a grain of corn, and flew with him to the top +of the giant’s castle by the seaside, where he left him. Old Grumbo, +the giant, came out soon afterwards, to walk upon his terrace, and Tom, +frightened out of his wits, managed to creep up his sleeve. Tom’s +motions made the giant uncomfortable, and with a jerk of his arm, he +threw him into the sea. A great fish then swallowed him. The fish was +soon after caught, and sent as a present to King Arthur. When it was +cut open, everybody was delighted with little Tom Thumb, who was found +inside. He became the favorite of the whole court, and by his merry +pranks often amused the King and Queen. + +[Illustration] + +The King, when he rode on horseback, frequently took Tom in his hand; +and if a shower of rain came on, the tiny dwarf used to creep into the +King’s waistcoat pocket and sleep till the rain was over. The King now +questioned him concerning his parents; and when Tom informed his +majesty they were very poor people, the King led him into his treasury, +and told him he should pay them a visit and take with him as much money +as he could carry. + +[Illustration] + +Tom soon got rested at his mother’s house, but could not travel because +it had rained; his mother therefore took him in her hand and carried +him back to King Arthur’s court. There Tom entertained the King and +Queen and nobility at tilts and tournaments, at which he exerted +himself so much that he brought on a fit of sickness. At this juncture +the Queen of the Fairies came in a chariot drawn by flying mice, and +placing Tom by her side she drove through the air till they arrived at +her palace. After restoring him to health, the Queen commanded a fair +wind, and, placing Tom before it, blew him straight back to the court +of King Arthur. But just as Tom should have alighted in the courtyard, +the cook happened to pass with the King’s great bowl of his favorite +dish, furmenty, and poor Tom fell plump into the middle of it, and +splashed the hot furmenty into the cook’s eyes. Down went the bowl. +“Oh, dear,” cried Tom. “Murder! murder!” bellowed the cook; and away +ran the King’s nice furmenty into the kennel. The cook was a cross +fellow and swore to the King that Tom had done it out of some evil +design; so he was tried for high treason and sentenced to be beheaded. +When the judge delivered this dreadful sentence it happened that a +miller was standing by with his mouth wide open, so Tom took a good +spring and jumped down his throat, unperceived by all, even by the +miller himself. + +As Tom could not be found the court broke up, and away went the miller +to his mill. But Tom did not leave him long at rest, he began to roll +and tumble about, so that the miller thought himself bewitched, and +sent for a doctor. When the doctor came, Tom began to dance and sing. +The doctor was as much frightened as the miller, and sent in great +haste for five more doctors. + +[Illustration] + +While all these were talking the miller began to yawn, and Tom, taking +the opportunity, made another bold jump and alighted on his feet in the +middle of the table. The miller, provoked to be thus tormented by such +a little creature, caught hold of Tom and threw him out of the window +into the river. A large salmon swimming by snapped him up in a moment. + +The salmon was soon caught and sold in the market to the steward of a +great lord. The grandee, thinking it an uncommonly fine fish, made a +present of it to the King, who ordered it to be dressed immediately. +When the cook cut open the salmon he found poor Tom inside, and ran +with him directly to the King; but the King being busy, desired that he +might be brought another day. + +[Illustration] + +The cook was resolved to keep him safely this time, so clapped him into +a mouse-trap. There he was shut up for a whole week, when the King sent +for him, forgave him for throwing down the furmenty, and ordered him +new clothes, gave him a spirited mouse for a hunter, and knighted him. + +Thus dressed and mounted, he rode a hunting with the King and nobility. + +[Illustration] + +As they were riding by a farmhouse one day, a cat jumped from behind +the door, seized the mouse and little Tom, ran off with them both, and +was just going to devour the mouse when Tom boldly drew his sword and +attacked the cat with great spirit. The King and his nobles, seeing Tom +in danger, went to his assistance, and one of the lords bravely saved +him just in time, but poor Tom was sadly scratched by the claws of the +cat. + +[Illustration] + +The Queen of the Fairies came and took him again to Fairyland, where +she kept him some years; after which, dressing him in bright green, she +sent him flying once more through the air to the earth. King Thunstone +now reigned in the place of King Arthur. The people flocked far and +near to look at Tom Thumb, and the King, before whom he was carried, +asked him who he was and where he lived. Tom answered: + + “My name is Tom Thumb, + From the fairies I come; + When King Arthur shone, + This court was my home. + In me he delighted, + By him I was knighted. + Did you ever hear of + Sir Thomas Thumb? + +The King was so charmed with this address that he ordered a little +chair to be made, and also a palace of gold a span high, with a door an +inch wide, for little Tom to live in. He also gave him a coach, drawn +by six small mice. This made the Queen angry, because she had not a new +coach too; therefore, resolving to ruin Tom, she complained to the King +that he had behaved very insolently to her. The King sent for him in a +rage. Tom, to escape his fury, crept into a large, empty snail-shell, +and there lay for some time, when, peeping out of the shell, he saw a +fine butterfly on the ground. He ventured forth and got astride the +butterfly, which took wing, and mounted into the air with little Tom on +his back. Away he flew straight to the King’s court. + +[Illustration] + +The King, Queen, and nobles all strove to catch the butterfly. At +length poor Tom slipped from his seat, and fell into a sweet dish +called white-pot, where he was found, almost drowned. The Queen vowed +he should be punished, and he was secured once more in a mouse-trap, +when the cat, seeing something stir, and supposing it to be a mouse, +patted the trap about till she broke it and set Tom at liberty. + +[Illustration] + +Soon afterwards a spider, taking poor Tom for a big fly, made a spring +at him. Tom drew his sword and fought valiantly, but the spider’s +poisonous breath overcame him. + +King Thunstone and his whole court went into mourning for little Tom +Thumb. They buried him under a rose-bush, and raised a nice, white +marble monument over his grave. + + + + +[Illustration] THE LION AND THE FOX + +THE LION AND THE FOX + + +There was once a fox who had never seen a lion; and so, when he saw a +lion for the first time, this fox was so scared that he did not know +what to do. + +The lion did him no harm: and the fox crept off out of the way, and ran +to his hole, and there hid. He stayed in his hole a long while, until +he found he must go in search of food, and then he crept out. + + + + +[Illustration] + + +Ella and May are the girls you see on this page. Ella is older than +May, and can read, but May cannot. + +But Ella is kind, and will read to May a long time, if May will do as +she is bid, and sit still on her lap. + +And Ella will show May how to read herself. + + + + +[Illustration] + + +In a country called Holland, storks are very kindly treated, for so +many frogs live in the marshes there, that if the storks did not eat +them, the people would hardly know what to do. The storks are very +clever at catching the poor froggies; they snatch them up in their long +bills, and go flying off, with their great wings spread and their long +legs stretched out behind them, carrying off two or three at once. + + + + +CATCHING BLACKBIRDS. + + +Two little boys were running through the meadows as hard as they could +go. “What are you doing there?” said a man who was passing along. + +[Illustration] + +“Catching blackbirds?” said Willie. “Have you caught any?” said the +man. + +“No, not yet,” said Willie. “But grandpa is going to give me five +dollars when I catch one. He wants one.” + +Willie’s grandpa did happen to say to him that morning, “You catch me a +blackbird, and I will give you five dollars.” He said it just out of +fun. He did not think that Willie would ever try to do it. + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE DOG. + + +Do you see the dog and the hen? The dog bit the hen, and she was mad. +My dog bit a fox on the hip. One day the fox bit the dog on the lip and +ran off. Tom and I had a gun, and we set off to get the fox; but the +sun was so hot we did not go far, but sat on the hay, and had fun. + + + + +A LETTER TO FRANK. + + +[Illustration] + +DEAR FRANK,—One day a rabbit came out of the woods to see if he could +find any clover. Some boys saw him, and tried to catch him. He ran +under the barn; then came out, sprang through the fence, and so got +clear. + +[Illustration] + +I will tell you of a smart thing that my red cow does. When she goes +for a drink and finds the trough empty, she takes hold of the handle +with her horns, and pumps the water. + +[Illustration] + +While I was waiting for a train at the station, the other day, a boy +with a little dog came in to wait also. The poor dog was afraid, and +tried very hard to get away; but the boy held him fast by a stout +string. + +[Illustration] + +There is one very selfish little chicken in my barn. 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