. Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm . TOM THUMB. HERE was once a poor countryman whoused to sit in the chimney-corner allevening and poke the fire, while hiswife sat at her he used to say, How dull it is without any childrenabout us ; our house is so quiet, andother peoples houses so noisy andmerry ! Yes, answered his wife, and sighed, if we could onlyhave one, and that one ever so little, no bigger than mythumb, how happy I should be ! It would, indeed, be havingour hearts desire. Now, it happened that after a while the woman had a childwho was perfec
. Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm . TOM THUMB. HERE was once a poor countryman whoused to sit in the chimney-corner allevening and poke the fire, while hiswife sat at her he used to say, How dull it is without any childrenabout us ; our house is so quiet, andother peoples houses so noisy andmerry ! Yes, answered his wife, and sighed, if we could onlyhave one, and that one ever so little, no bigger than mythumb, how happy I should be ! It would, indeed, be havingour hearts desire. Now, it happened that after a while the woman had a childwho was perfect in all his limbs, but no bigger than a the parents said, He is just what we wished for, and we will love him verymuch, and they named him according to his stature, TomThumb. And though they gave him plenty of nourishment,he grew no bigger, but remained exactly the same size as whenhe was first born ; and he had very good faculties, and wasvery quick and prudent, so that all he did prospered. One day his father made ready to go into the forest to cutwood,
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