Fairy Tales for Adults (Ideas for Life) Volume 4 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, Remarkable Rocket, Roly Poly Pudding, Tailor of Gloucester, fairy tale, children, magic, bedtime, stories, folklore, good and evil, family, society, social, heart-warming, adults, romance, mindfulness
Publisher: Sovereign Classic
Published: 2016-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

The Tailor of Gloucester

“I’LL BE AT CHARGES FOR

A LOOKING-GLASS, AND ENTERTAIN

A SCORE OR TWO OF TAILORS”

Richard III.

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

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 Gloucester.

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