ISBN 978-83-60412-51-0

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In a wooden cottage with a thatched roof there once lived a woodchopper with his wife. They didn’t have any children and dreamed of having a son. Finally, fate smiled upon them. The woman gave birth to a boy who was no larger than a thumb. His parents were proud of him, for he turned out to be a healthy and clever boy. They called him Tom Thumb because of his height.

One day Tom Thumb’s father set out into the forest to go cut some wood. Before he left he was worried, he didn’t know who could take the cart to collect the logs.

“Don’t worry father.” said Tom Thumb happily. “I’ll take the cart.”

The woodchopper didn’t believe that such a small boy could take control of a horse. So he just smiled and went to the forest. When the time had come Tom Thumb asked his mother to harness the horse to the cart and then she placed him in the horse’s ear.