Fairy Tailors Measure Tom Thumb!

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Illustration: Tom Thumb & The Tailors. ONCE UPON A TIME. Edited by Katharine Lee Bates. Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price. Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

“TOM THUMB & THE FAIRY TAILORS”

One summer morning when the wee baby was only a few days old, the queen of the fairies flew in at the window of the room where he lay. She touched his cheek lightly with a butterfly kiss and gave him the name of Tom Thumb.  She then ordered her fairy tailors to make for Tom a wonderful suit, his hat of an oak leaf, his shirt of a spider’s web, his jacket of thistledown, his trousers of apple-rind, and his shoes of the skin of a mouse, nicely tanned, with the hair inside.

Illustration: Tom Thumb & The Tailors. ONCE UPON A TIME. Edited by Katharine Lee Bates. Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price. Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.

ONCE UPON A TIME.

Edited by Katharine Lee Bates.

Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.

Rand McNally & Company: Chicago & New York. 1921.