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The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter Originals)

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Es muy lindo, y claramente recuerda la historia que me era más conocida del zapatero con los duendes. Según la wikipedia, Beatrix Potter basó esta historia es una de su tiempo que le habia pasado a un sastre sorprendido gratamente por sus ayudantes excepto por un ojal que queda sin hacer porque les faltaba trencilla "¡No more twist!", pero que él decia fue asistido por las "hadas". And then from all over the dresser came a chorus of little tappings, all sounding together, and answering one another, like watch-beetles in an old worm-eaten window-shutter— But it is in the old story that all the beasts can talk in the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the morning (though there are very few folk that can hear them, or know what it is that they say).

But the tailor came out of his shop and shuffled home through the snow. And although it was not a big house, the tailor was so poor he only rented the kitchen. Beatrix Potter was born to a wealthy family in London, England in 1866. Supposedly tutored (but largely ignored) by her governess, she had many long hours to spend alone with a growing menagerie of pets, which she taught herself to draw in startlingly accurate detail and proportion. Her innate intelligence and ability to observe and document minute details of nature should have given her a scientific career. But Victorian England didn't even think women should have "their own" money or property, much less a career in a "man's world." Potter later borrowed Freda Moore's gift copy, revised the work, and privately printed the tale in December 1902. [8] [9] She marketed the book among family and friends and sent a copy to her publisher who made numerous cuts in both text and illustrations for the trade edition, chiefly among the tale's many nursery rhymes. [3] Publication history [ edit ] The book is based on real-world events, involving a tailor (of the humankind!) and his assistants. Potter’s cousin, Caroline Hutton, lived in Gloucester and Potter heard the story from her whilst she was working on her third book, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin . Where Should You Buy The Coin From?A part of the Beatrix Potter 50p collection the Tailor of Gloucester is highly sought after, but how much is it worth today? This enchanting 1903 children's story is free online here at Project Gutenberg, along with the illustrations.

Después de trabajar todo el día deja las piezas cortadas y se retira pensando que le falta un hilo trenzado para terminar los ojales. Pero llegando a casa y tras enviar a su gato Simpkin por algo para comer y el hilo faltante, encuentra unos ratoncitos debajo de la vajilla al parecer "guardados por su gato" y los libera. Después enferma por varios días... When he arrived home Simpkin, the tailor’s cat, was there to greet him. Simpkin, too, was fond of mice - though he preferred them for his supper. The little mice came out again and listened to the tailor; they took notice of the pattern of that wonderful coat. They whispered to one another about the taffeta lining and about little mouse tippets. The tailor replied: “Simpkin, we shall make our fortune, but I am worn to a ravelling. Take this groat (which is our last fourpence) and, Simpkin, take a china pipkin, but a penn’orth of bread, a penn’orth of milk, and a penn’orth of sausages. And oh, Simpkin, with the last penny of our fourpence but me one penn’orth of cherry-colored silk. But do not lose the last penny of the fourpence, Simpkin, or I am undone and worn to a thread-paper, for I have NO MORE TWIST.” first of a series of improvements to the public areas of Westgate Street, which will also include new seating and planting schemes in the near future.

But although he sewed fine silk for his neighbors, he himself was very, very poor. He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table—“Too narrow breadths for nought—except waistcoats for mice,” said the tailor. Then the tailor started; for suddenly, interrupting him, from the ​dresser at the other side of the kitchen came a number of little noises— Action Zone, we are marking the anniversary of the publication of The Tailor of Gloucester by celebrating its origins on Westgate Street.'

And out from under tea-cups and from under bowls and basins, stepped other and more little mice, who hopped away down off the dresser and under the wainscot. Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology. The sun was shining on the snow when the tailor got up and dressed, and came out into the street with Simpkin running before him. He made the most wonderful waistcoats for all the rich merchants of Gloucester, and for all the fine gentlemen of the country round. But upon the table—oh joy! the tailor gave a shout—there, where he had left plain cuttings of silk—there lay the most beautiful coat and embroidered satin waistcoat that ever were worn by a Mayor of Gloucester!

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This book is so so sooo long that it made me appreciate the conciseness of the others in the series. Nothing was really gained by having so many more words except that it takes longer to read. The whole thing is rendered a bit dull by the length. 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 Gloucester.

The tailor crossed the kitchen, and stood quite still beside the dresser, listening, and peering through his spectacles. Again from under a teacup came those funny little noises— The boards were swept and clean; the little ends of thread and the little silk snippets were all tidied away, and gone from off the floor. Simpkin came away from the shop and went home considering in his mind. He found the poor old tailor without fever, sleeping peacefully.

Each plaque features mice based on the original illustrations drawn by Potter for The Tailor of Gloucester , re-drawn by award-winning local artist Ella Daniel Lowe.

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