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It was certainly very diverting to see Tom in this dress, and mounted on the mouse, as he rode out a-hunting with the king and nobility, who were all ready to                      expire with laughter at Tom and his fine prancing eharger. One day, as they were riding by a farm- house, a large cat, which was lurking a-. bout the door, made a spring, and seiz- ed both Tom and his mouse. She then ran up a tree with them, and was begin- ning to devour the mouse; but Tom bold- ly drew his sword, and attacked the cat so fiercely, that she let them both fall, when one of the nobles caught him in his hat, and laid him on a bed of down, in                      a little ivory cabinet. The queen of the fairies came soon af- ter to pay Tom a visit, and carried him back to Fairy-Land, where he remained several years. During his residence there, King Arthur, and all the persons who knew Tom, had died; and as he was de- sirous of being again at court, the fairy queen, after dressing him in a suit of                      clothes, sent him flying through the air to the palace, in the days of King Thun- stone, the successor of Arthur. Ever