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    The Tailor of Gloucester: Children's Classic Fiction
    The Tailor of Gloucester: Children's Classic Fiction
    The Tailor of Gloucester: Children's Classic Fiction
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    The Tailor of Gloucester: Children's Classic Fiction

    By Beatrix Potter

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    A tailor in Gloucester sends his cat Simpkin to buy food and a twist of cherry-coloured silk to complete a waistcoat commissioned by the mayor for his wedding on Christmas morning. Whilst Simpkin is gone, the tailor finds mice the cat has imprisoned under teacups. The mice are released and scamper away. When Simpkin returns and finds his mice gone, he hides the twist in anger. The tailor falls ill and is unable to complete the waistcoat, but, upon returning to his shop, he is surprised to find the waistcoat finished. The work has been done by the grateful mice. However, one buttonhole remains unfinished because there was "no more twist!" Simpkin gives the tailor the twist to complete the work and the success of the waistcoat makes the tailor's fortune. Potter declared that of all her books this was her personal favourite.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiamond Book Publishing
    Release dateJul 15, 2020
    ISBN9788835864714
    The Tailor of Gloucester: Children's Classic Fiction
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    Beatrix Potter

    Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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      The Tailor of Gloucester - Beatrix Potter

      MY DEAR FREDA

      Because you are fond of fairy-tales, and have been ill, I have made you a story all for yourself a new one that nobody has read before.

      And the queerest thing about it is—that I heard it in Gloucestershire, and that it is true—at least about the tailor, the waistcoat, and the

      No more twist!

      Christmas, 1901

      THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER

      In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

      He sat in the window of a little shop in Westgate Street, cross-legged on a table, from morning till dark.

      All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippeted, piecing out his satin and pompadour, and lutestring; stuffs had strange names, and were very expensive in the days of the Tailor of

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