...a woman three ells and three quarters long.' See Mr. Thorns' Preface to ' Tom a Lincoln,' p. xi.] I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put...there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters,...

...three ells and three quarters long." This personage is probably commemorated in the nursery rhyme, I had a little husband No bigger than my thumb : I put him in a pint-pot, And there I bid turn drum. According to popular tradition, Tom Thumb died at Lincoln, and...

...backwards and forwards, And here we go round, round, roundy. Rigadoon, rigadoon, now let him fly. I HAD a little husband No bigger than my thumb, I put...some garters, To garter up his hose, And a little handkerchief, To wipe his pretty nose. A LITTLE boy went into a barn, And lay down on some hay ; An...

...exclaimed, "Veil! you are a nice little uian," and then ™tamenoed singing the old refrain— -" I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, and there I bid him drnm :" when Moggy, who had turned back, saluted her with such a box on the ear that she made the drum...

...See Mr. Thorns* Preface to ' Tom a Lincoln/ p. xi.] I HAD a little husband, No bigger than my thumb j I put him in a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters,...

...following little poemet, which is manifestly borrowed from the ancient legend of Tom Thumb : — " I had a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put him iu a pint pot, And there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled...

...and exclaimed, " Vell! you are a nice little man," and then commenced singing the old refrain — " I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, and there I bid him drum:" when Moggy, who had turned back, saluted her with such a box on the ear that she made the drum of it...

...following little poemet, which is manifestly borrowed from the ancient legend of Tom Thumb : — "I had a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put...there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters...

...following little poemet, which is manifestly borrowed from the ancient legend of Tom Thumb : — " I had a little husband, No bigger than my thumb, I put...there I bid him drum. I bought a little horse, That galloped up and down ; I bridled him, and saddled him, And sent him out of town. I gave him some garters...

...skin and bone, as if he had been a tapemeasure, from the divan on which he had been lounging. " ' I had a little husband No bigger than my thumb. I put him in a pint-pot, And there I bid him drum;' . and then I took a most ecstatic twirl or two with Robert Jones,...