Tom Thumb (14)

Tom Thumb (14)

The wolf didn't need telling twice.
That night, he found his way to the house and slipped into the kitchen through a hole in the wall.

He slunk into the pantry where he ate and ate and ate.

When he had eaten his fill he tried to leave through the hole, but he grown so fat that he could not go outthe same way as he had come in.

Tom Thumb then began to make a terrible uproar in the wolf's stomach.

" Will you be quiet ! " said the wolf, groaning.
" You will wake up the people who live here. "

" Oh, too bad ! " replied Tom."
" You have eaten your fill. I want to enjoy myself as well, "
Then he began to yell and cry again with all his might.

At last his parents were woken up by all the noise.

They ran into the kitchen and looked around.
When they saw the wolf, the man fetched his axe and the woman grabbed a knife.

" Stay behind me, " said the man.
" I will hit the wolf, then you cut him into pieces. "

When Tom Thumb heard his father's voice, he cried, " Dear father, I am here. I am in the wolf's stomach. "

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