He saw on her cheek a tear-drop glisten, So he hid himself under her chair to listen.” Illustration from ‘Hop O’ My Thumb’ by Paul Gustave Dore. Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Hop-on-My-Thumb), or Hop o' My Thumb, also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet is one of the eight fairytales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), Where the small boy defeats the ogre. Illustration by Gustave Dore from the book Fairy realm. A collection of the favourite old tales. Illustrated by the pencil of Gustave Dore by Tom Hood, (1835-1874); Gustave Doré, (1832-1883) P
He saw on her cheek a tear-drop glisten, So he hid himself under her chair to listen.” Illustration from ‘Hop O’ My Thumb’ by Paul Gustave Dore. Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Hop-on-My-Thumb), or Hop o' My Thumb, also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet is one of the eight fairytales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), Where the small boy defeats the ogre. Illustration by Gustave Dore from the book Fairy realm. A collection of the favourite old tales. Illustrated by the pencil of Gustave Dore by Tom Hood, (1835-1874); Gustave Doré, (1832-1883) Published in London by Ward, Lock and Tyler in 1866
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