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Tom had travelled forty-eight hours with
a huge silver piece on his back, and was
almost tired to death, when his mother
ran out to meet him, and carried him in-
to the house.
Tom's parents were both happy to see
him, and the more so, as he had brought
such an amazing sum of money with
him; but the poor little fellow was ex-
cessively wearied, having travelled half a
mile in forty-eight lours, with a huge sil-
ver threepenny-piece on his back. His
mother, in order to recover him from the
fatigue he had undergone, placed him in
a walnut shell by the fireside, and feasted
him for three days on a hazel-nut, which
made him very sick; for a whole nut us-
ed to serve him a month.
Tom soon recovered; but as there had
been a fall of rain, and the ground very
wet, he could not travel back to King
Arthur's court; therefore his mother,
one day when the wind was blowing in
that direction, made a little parasol of
cambric paper, and tying Tom to it, she
gave him a puff into the air with her
mouth, which soon carried him to the
King's palace. The king, queen, and all
