The Tailor of Gloucester

by Beatrix Potter · language: en

THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER BY BEATRIX POTTER Author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc "I'LL BE AT CHARGES FOR A LOOKING-GLASS, AND ENTERTAIN A SCORE OR TWO OF TAILORS" Richard III NEW YORK FREDERICK WARNE & CO, INC COPYRIGHT, 1903 BY FREDERICK WARNE & Co.

COPYRIGHT RENEWED, 1931 [All rights reserved] PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY PRINCETON POLYCHROME PRESS ISBN O 7232 0594 9 (cloth) ISBN O-7232-6227-6 (paper) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20(C) F/ 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.

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