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Tom had travelled forty-eight hours with a huge silver piece on his back, and was almost tired to death, when his mother ran out to meet him, and carried him in- to the house. Tom's parents were both happy to see him, and the more so, as he had brought such an amazing sum of money with him; but the poor little fellow was ex- cessively wearied, having travelled half a                     mile in forty-eight lours, with a huge sil- ver threepenny-piece on his back. His mother, in order to recover him from the fatigue he had undergone, placed him in                     a walnut shell by the fireside, and feasted him for three days on a hazel-nut, which made him very sick; for a whole nut us- ed to serve him a month. Tom soon recovered; but as there had been a fall of rain, and the ground very wet, he could not travel back to King Arthur's court; therefore his mother, one day when the wind was blowing in                     that direction, made a little parasol of                      cambric paper, and tying Tom to it, she gave him a puff into the air with her mouth, which soon carried him to the King's palace. The king, queen, and all