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    The Story of Tim
    The Story of Tim
    The Story of Tim
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    The Story of Tim

    By George Henry Borrow and Thomas James Wise

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Story of Tim - George Henry Borrow

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Tim, by Anonymous, Translated by

      George Borrow

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Story of Tim

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: May 12, 2009 [eBook #28770]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF TIM***

      Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      THE STORY OF TIM

      Translated from the Russian

      by

      GEORGE BORROW

      London:

      printed for private circulation

      1913

      INTRODUCTION

      The Russians have three grand popular tales, the subjects of which are thievish adventures.  One is called the Story of Klim, another is called the Story of Tim, and the third is called the Story of Tom.  Below we present a translation of the Story of Tim.

      That part of the tale in which Tim inquires of the drowsy Archimandrite as to the person to whom the stolen pelisse is to be awarded, differs in no material point from a portion of a tale narrated in the Turkish story-book of the lady and the forty vizirs.  The concluding part, however, in which we are told how Tim’s comrades twice stole the pig from him, and how he twice regained it, is essentially Russian, and is original.

      THE STORY OF TIM

      In a certain village there lived an old man who had lost almost the whole of his hair, partly from age, and partly from the friction of his fur cap, which he never laid aside, either by day or night.  He had a helpmeet as ancient as himself, but who differed from him in having a hump.  Our story, however, does not relate to them, but to a son of theirs, called Timoney, who was a sharp lad enough, but who had learnt nothing but to play on the fife.  The old man thinking that music, however sweet, would never fill the

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