Identifier: littletom00till (find matches)
Title: Little Tom
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Tillie, V
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Publisher: Prague :
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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LITTLE TOM AND CHRYSOMELA BETAKE THEMSELVES TO TOMS GODMOTHER. THEY REST UNDER THE DOG-ROSE. THE WIND SWEEPS THEM INTO A FURROW. THEY WANDER IN THE DARK AND MEET A HAMSTER. IN THE HAMSTERS BURROW. CHRYSOMELA FALLS ILL AND DIES. THE FUNERAL.1 HE HAMSTER TAKES LITTLE TOM THROUGH THE SNOW TO THE CHAPEL. LITTLE TOM LEARNS, FROM A MOUSE, ABOUT THE DEATH OF HIS GODMOTHER AND VISITS HER TOMB. HE RETUNRS WITH THE HAMSTER. THE SLEDGE OF QUEEN FAIRY.
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Tom walked with Chrysomela along the edge of the stubble field, down the road;that was all they knew of their direction - - that they must always be goingdown. They expected that the way would not be long, for they remembered that, inone day, the ants had brought all their possessions from the Godmothers house to thewood. They forgot that the ants knew the direction and therefore walked straightover everything, while they, not knowing where to go, had to travel the path of thehumans and therefore traveled in a wide circle. Chrysomela was well wrapped up in her cloak and over her head she had pul-led a cobweb veil, so that her golden hair should not fly around, but on her feet shehad only little, light shoes of birch bark. After she had gone a little way, she felthow heavily she was walking over the clods by the stubble field and stumbled so thatshe had to lean on Toms strong arm. Tom tried to encourage her by telling her that they would soon see the humandwellings. He decided that if

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