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Updated: June 17, 2025
Gather wood, quickly quickly all-ll the dry wood you can!" And the friendly little cedar gave of its one brown arm, the spruce chit, the birch stripling, the pine urchin all the hop-o'-my-thumb timber that flourished in this wild pass contributed of the dead limbs torn from them by last winter's blasts, to burn up the chill in the old Man Killer's heart.
Soon after there came a heavy rain, which wetted them to the very skin, and made the ground so slippery, that they fell down almost at every step, and got dirty all over. Before it was quite dark, Hop-o'-my-thumb climbed up to the top of a tree, and looked round on all sides to see if he could find any way of getting help.
As soon as ever Hop-o'-my-thumb had made sure of the Ogre's seven-league boots, he went at once to the palace, and offered his services to carry orders from the king to his army, which was a great way off, and to bring back the quickest accounts of the battle they were just at that time fighting with the enemy.
"No, no, my son," he answered, "you are always welcome. Did we not campaign together? Did we not shoot these very falls together on our way to Kaskaskia?" He had to raise his voice above the roar of the water. "Faith, well I remember the day. And you saved it, Davy, you, a little gamecock, a little worldly-wise hop-o'-my-thumb, eh?
When the father and mother saw that the young ones were all very busy, they slipped away without being seen. The children soon found themselves alone, and began to cry as loud as they could. Hop-o'-my-thumb let them cry on, for he knew well enough how to lead them safe home, an he had taken care to drop the white pebbles he had in his pocket along all the way he had come.
"'Tis charming to hear of one man of letters from the charming wife of another." "La, I could tell you ever so much about 'em," continues the voluble lady. "What do you think the Captain has got now? a little hunchback fellow a little hop-o'-my-thumb creature that he calls a poet a little Popish brat!" "Hush, there are two in the room," whispers her companion.
Now this, indeed, was a mark of his good sense, but it made his father and mother suppose him to be silly, and they thought that at last he would turn out quite a fool. This boy was the least size ever seen; for when he was born he was no bigger than a man's thumb, which made him be christened by the name of Hop-o'-my-thumb.
'But you're never going there! we shall wake the company, and they will all come out to see what's the matter. "'I shouldn't care if they did, said Melchior, 'it would make it feel more real. "As he did not understand this sentiment, Hop-o'-my-thumb said nothing, but held on very tightly; and they crept softly down the cold gray passage in the dawn.
'What fool's game are you playing? said Melchior, angrily. 'I know that man. He is both ill-tempered and a bad character. "'You never told her so before, muttered young Hop-o'-my-thumb. "'Hold your tongue, said Melchior. 'I forbade her to talk to him, which was enough. "'I don't want to leave you; but he cares for me, and you don't, sobbed the sister; and she was carried away.
Even in this hour of our mutual discomfort Johnson would not leave me alone, but persisted in asking me how I spelt Jonah. Nobody was looking, so I kicked him. He sprang up and came after me. I tried to run away, but became wedged between Hop-o'-my-Thumb and Julius Caesar.
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