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Speaker 1: Thank you. This episode is the first of several that

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Speaker 1: will include classic fairy tale. This fairy tale is called

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Speaker 1: Tom Thumb. There is a couple who wish for a

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Speaker 1: child more than anything, and are lucky to have a

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Speaker 1: son who is no bigger than their thumb. They are

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Speaker 1: very happy, and Tom helps them a great deal. One day,

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Speaker 1: two men offer money to buy Tom, and he sets

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Speaker 1: off on an adventure. Tom Thumb, a poor woodman sat

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Speaker 1: in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside,

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Speaker 1: while his wife sat by his side, spinning lonely. It

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Speaker 1: is wife, he said, as he puffed out a long

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Speaker 1: curl of smoke, for you and me to sit here

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Speaker 1: by ourselves without any children to play about and amuse us.

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Speaker 1: While other people seem so happy and merry with their children.

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Speaker 1: What you say is very true, said the wife, sighing

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Speaker 1: and turning round her wheel. How happy should I be

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Speaker 1: if I had but one child, if it were ever

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Speaker 1: so small, Nay, if it were no bigger than my thumb,

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Speaker 1: I should be very happy and love it dearly. Now,

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Speaker 1: odd as you may think it, it came to pass

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Speaker 1: that this good woman's wish was fulfilled just in the

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Speaker 1: very way she had wished it. For. Not long afterwards

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Speaker 1: she had a little boy who was quite healthy and strong,

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Speaker 1: but was not much bigger than my thumb. So they said, well,

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Speaker 1: we cannot say we have not got what we wished for,

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Speaker 1: And little as he is, we will love him dearly.

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Speaker 1: And they called him Thomas Thumb. They gave him plenty

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Speaker 1: of food, Yet for all they could do, he never

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Speaker 1: grew bigger, but kept just the same size as he

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Speaker 1: had been when he was born. Still, his eyes were

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Speaker 1: sharp and sparkling, and he soon showed himself to be

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Speaker 1: a clever little fellow who always knew well what he

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Speaker 1: was about. One day, as the woodman was getting ready

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Speaker 1: I wish I had someone to bring the cart after me,

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Speaker 1: for I want to make haste. Oh, father, cried Tom,

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Speaker 1: I will take care of that. The cart shall be

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Speaker 1: in the wood by the time you want it. Then

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Speaker 1: the woodman laughed and said, how can that be? You

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Speaker 1: cannot reach up to the horse's bridle. Never mind that, father,

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Speaker 1: said Tom. If mother will only harness the horse, I

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Speaker 1: will get into his ear and tell him which way

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Speaker 1: to go. Well, said the father, we will try for once.

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Speaker 1: When the time came, the mother harnessed the horse to

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Speaker 1: And thus the horse went on, just as well as

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Speaker 1: It happened that as the horse was going a little

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Speaker 1: too fast, and Tom was calling out gently gently, two

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Speaker 1: strangers came up. What an odd thing that is, said one.

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Speaker 1: There is a cart going along, and I hear some

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Speaker 1: no one that is strange. Indeed, said the other, let

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Speaker 1: seeing his father, cried out, see father, here I am

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Speaker 1: where he sat as merry as you please. The two

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Speaker 1: strangers were all this time looking on and did not

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Speaker 1: about from town to town as a show. We must

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Speaker 1: Take the money, father, and let them have me. I'll

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Speaker 1: soon come back to you. So the woodman at last

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Speaker 1: said he would sell Tom to the strangers for a

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Speaker 1: would you like to sit, said one of them. Oh,

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Speaker 1: They journeyed on till it began to get dusky, and

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Speaker 1: So the man took off his hat and put him

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Speaker 1: old mousehole. Good Night, my masters, he said, I'm off mine,

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Speaker 1: and look sharp after me the next time. Then they

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Speaker 1: of their sticks into the mousehole, but all in vain.

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Speaker 1: Tom only crawled farther and farther in, and at last

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Speaker 1: it became quite dark, so that they were forced to

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Speaker 1: go their way without their prize, as sulky as could be.

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Speaker 1: When Tom found they were gone, he came out of

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Speaker 1: his hiding place. What dangerous walking it is, he said,

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Speaker 1: At last, my good luck, he found a large empty

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Speaker 1: snail shell. This is lucky, he said. I can sleep

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Speaker 1: here very well, and in he crept. Just as he

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Speaker 1: was falling asleep, he heard two men passing by, chatting together,

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Speaker 1: and one said to the other, how can we rob

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Speaker 1: that rich person's house of his silver and gold? I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you, cried Tom. What noise was that? Said the thief, frightened,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I heard someone speak. They stood still listening,

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Speaker 1: and Tom said, take me with you, and I'll show

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Speaker 1: you how to get the person's money. But where are you,

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Speaker 1: they said, Look about on the ground, answered him, and

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Speaker 1: listen where the sound comes from. At last the thieves

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Speaker 1: You little urchin, they said, what can you do for us?

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Speaker 1: Why I can get between the iron window bars of

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Speaker 1: the person's house and throw you out whatever you want. Hmm,

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Speaker 1: that's a good thought, said the thieves. Come along, we

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Speaker 1: the room and then called out as loud as he could,

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Speaker 1: thieves were frightened and said softly, softly, speak low, that

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Speaker 1: he did not understand them, and yelled out again, how

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Speaker 1: much will you have? Shall I throw it all out? Now?

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Speaker 1: The cook lay in the next room, and hearing a noise,

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Speaker 1: she raised herself up in her bed and listened. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: But at last they plucked up their courage and said,

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Speaker 1: So they came back and whispered softly to him, saying,

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Speaker 1: now let us have no more of your roguish jokes,

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Speaker 1: but throw us out some of the money. Then Tom

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Speaker 1: called out as loud as he could, very well hold

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Speaker 1: your hands, here it comes. The cook heard this quite plain,

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Speaker 1: so she sprang out of bed and ran to open

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Speaker 1: and when she had looked about and searched every hole

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Speaker 1: But alas how woefully he was undone. Crosses and sorrows

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Speaker 1: up early before daybreak to feed the cows, and, going

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Speaker 1: straight to the hayloft, carried away a large bundle of hay,

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Speaker 1: He still, however, slept on and did not awake till

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Speaker 1: he found himself in the mouth of the cow, for

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Speaker 1: the cook had put the hay into the cow's trough,

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Speaker 1: her stomach. It is rather dark, he said. They forgot

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Speaker 1: not like his quarters at all, and the worst of

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Speaker 1: At last, he cried out as loud as he could.

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Speaker 1: The maid happened to be just then milking the cow

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Speaker 1: to her master, the person who owned the house, and said, Sir, sir,

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Speaker 1: the cow is talking. But the man said, woman, you

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Speaker 1: Scarcely had they set foot on the threshold when Tom

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Speaker 1: But at last, just as he had made room to

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Speaker 1: a hungry wolf sprang out, swallowed him whole, and ran away. Tom, however,

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Speaker 1: was still not disheartened, and thinking the wolf would not

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Speaker 1: he called out, my good friend, I can show you

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Speaker 1: a famous treat. Where's that? Said the wolf? In such

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Speaker 1: and such a house, said Tom, describing his own father's house.

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Speaker 1: You can crawl through the drain into the kitchen and

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Speaker 1: then into the pantry, and there you will find cakes,

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Speaker 1: answered tom I have traveled all over the world, I think,

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Speaker 1: said they, you are come back, and we will not

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Speaker 1: mother in peace, for though he had been so great

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Speaker 1: Good Night, sleep tight,