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about, so that the poor miller could get no rest, thinking he was bewitched; so                    be sent for a doctor. When the doctor came, Tom began to dance and sing; and the docter being as much frightened as the miller, sent in haste for five other doctors and twenty learned men. When they were debating upon the cause of this extraordinary occurrence, the miller happened to yawn, when Tom embracing the opportunity, made another jump, and alighted-safely upon his feet on the middle of the table. The miller, who was very much pro- voked at being tormented by such a little pigmy creature, fell into a terrible rage, and, laying hold of Tom, he then opened the window, and threw him into the river. At the moment the miller let Tom drop a large salmon, swimming along at the time, saw him fall, and snap- ped him up in a minute. A fisherman caught the salmon, and sold it in the market to the steward of a great lord. The nobleman, on seeing the fish, thought it so uncommonly fine, that he made a                    present of it to King Arthur, who order- ed it to be dressəd immediately. When