Chronicles the adventures of a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb and her many animal friends.
They stared their hardest at Thumbeline, and one cockchafer said: “Why, she has only two legs! How ugly that looks!” “She has no feelers,” said another; “how stupid she must be!” “How slender her waist is!” said a third.
handed, he was never once near Thumbeline. It was a wonderful sight and made me late for business. “By degrees she got to be very bold, and taught me boldness too, and (I am ashamed to say) greater degrees of deceit.
a dazzling white marble palace of the olden times ; the vines clustered round its high pillars and on the top were a number of swallows ' nests , and in one of these lived the swallow who had carried Thumbeline .
logy , geo load comme Thumbeline george college come glede Douala o cooooooo the warm countries . At last he had fallen to the ground , and that was all he knew . He had no idea how he had come to be under the ground .
When the autumn came, Thumbeline had her wedding outfit ready; and the field-mouse said to her: “Well, Thumbeline, in a month you shall be married.” But the girl cried, and said she would never marry the tiresome mole. “Nonsense!