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The Tailor of Gloucester. Beatrix Potter. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, ISBN ISBN One bitter cold day near Christmastime the tailor began to make a coat (a coat of cherry-colored corded silk embroidered with pansies and roses) and a cream-colored satin waistcoat for the Mayor of Gloucester. The tailor worked and worked, and he talked to himself: “No breadth at all, and cut on the cross; it is no breadth at all; tippets for mice and ribbons for mobs! for mice!” said the Tailor of . 8 rows ·  · Potter, Beatrix, Title: The Tailor of Gloucester Language: Author: Potter, Beatrix,

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: 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. The Tailor of Gloucester, a Short Story by Beatrix Potter. "I'll be at charges for a looking-glass; And entertain a score or two of tailors." My Dear Freda: Because you are fond of fairytales, 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. Tailor of Gloucester, jumping up from his chair. The tailor crossed the kitchen, and stood quite still beside the dresser, listening, and peering through his spectacles. "This is very peculiar," said the Tailor of Gloucester, and he lifted up the tea-cup which was upside down. Out stepped a little live lady mouse, and made a courtesy to the tailor!

The Tailor of Gloucester. Beatrix Potter. Published by Penguin Publishing Group, ISBN ISBN 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. Or that a Thing has happened to let us, like the Tailor of Gloucester, grow quite stout and quite rich. The Tailor of Gloucester is a tale that keeps alive the belief that there are ordinary things in the world that can accomplish extraordinary things. With God all things are possible.