Explore "New History of the Life and Adventures of Tom Thumb" by Sidney Babcock on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
His shirt was made of a butterfly's wing, / His boots were made of a mouse's skin, / His coat was wove of thistle down, / An oak-leaf hat he had for his crown, / A tailor's needle hung by his side, / And a mouse for a horse he used to ride.
When I was a little boy, children's books were not quite as plenty, or as cheap, or as _good_ as they are now. In those days, children did not often have a present of a pretty book with beautiful pictures; but when they did get one, it was highly prized.