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the cook cut open the fish, he found poor Tom, and run to the King with him; but his majesty being engaged with state- affairs, ordered him to be taken away, and kept in custody till he sent for him. The cook was determined that Tom should not slip out of his hands this time, so he put him into a mousetrap, and left him to peep through the wires. Tom had remained in the trap a whole week, when he was sent for by King Arthur, who pardoned him for throwing down the furmenty, and took him again into fav- our. On account of his wonderful feats of activity Tom was knighted by the King and went under the name of the renown- ed Sir Thomas Thumb. As Tom's clothes had suffered much in the batter-pudding, the furmenty, and the insides of the giant, miller, and fishes, his majesty ordered him a new suit of clothes, and to be                     mounted as a knight:

Of Butterdy's wings his shirt was made, His boots of chicken's hide: And by a nimble fairy blade, Well learned in the tailoring trade, His clothing was supplied.-- A needle dangled by his side; A dapper mouse he used to ride, Thus strutted Tom in stately pride!