Tom Thumb (11)

Tom Thumb (11)

As she did every morning, the cook got up at the crack of down to feed the animals.

First, she went to the shed where she took an armful of hay from the exact place where Tom Thumb was sleeping.

He was sleeping so soundly that he felt nothing.
In fact, he did not wake up until he was in the cow's mouth after she had taken a bite of the hay.



" Oh dear ! " he cried, realizing his danger.
" How did I end up here ? "

The only way to avoid being crushed by the cow's teeth was to slip down into her stomach, which the tiny lad bravely did.

The cow didn't notice and carried on eating.

" They forget to put windows in this little room, " he said when he landed in her dark insides. 
" The sun doesn't shine in and it would be difficult to get a candle in here. "

Tom was very unhappy in his new ' home ', especially as more hay kept arriving.
The space around him grew smaller and smaller. 

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