Tom Thumb (5)

 

Tom Thumb (5)

When the two stranger saw Tom Thumb, they were so surpraised that they did not know what to think.

Then one of them took the other aside and said, " Listen, this little fellow could make us a fortune if we exhibited him for money in a large city . We have to buy him. "

Then, turning to Tom's father they said, " Sell us this little man. He will be well looked after. "

" No, " replied the father, " he is the apple of my eye and I would not sell him for all the gold in the world. "

But hearing this proposal, Tom Thumb climbed up the folds of his father's coat, sat on his shoulder, and whispered in his ear, " Father, sell me today. I will soon return home again. "

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