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- Tale Summary Once upon a time there was a set of twins, a boy and a girl, whose father remarried after their mother鈥檚 death and had several more children. The stepmother was cruel and decided to send them to a wicked witch in the woods, telling them
- Tale Summary Once upon a time, there was a poor man and his wife, wood makers by trade, who had seven young boys (the oldest being ten, and the younger being seven years of age). This youngest boy was very small, only being the size of a thumb when
- Tale Summary George Cruikshank participated in the Temperance movement, and like other tales in this volume (Cinderella), this version of Hop O鈥 My Thumb denounces the evils of 鈥渟trong drink鈥 (alcohol). He also omits the violent scene in which the
- Tale Summary Seven siblings are born no more than three years apart into a poor family in which the youngest boy, named Hop-O鈥-My-Thumb, is deemed a weakly little fellow, but in fact, is actually the smartest in the group. His woodcutting parents