The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories.

Project Gutenberg's The History Of Tom Thumb and Other Stories., by Anonymous This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The History Of Tom Thumb and Other Stories. Author: Anonymous Release Date: February 15, 2004 [EBook #11092] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOM THUMB *** Produced by The Internet Archive Children's Library, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. TOM THUMB THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB AND OTHER STORIES Profusely Illustrated 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.