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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tailor of Gloucester + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: February 2, 2005 [EBook #14868] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online +Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<p class="figcenter"><img src="./images/cover_final.jpg" alt="Cover" title="Cover" /></p> + + +<h1>THE TAILOR OF</h1> +<h1>GLOUCESTER</h1> + +<h3>BY</h3> +<h2>BEATRIX POTTER</h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Author of +"The Tale of Peter Rabbit," etc</i><br /><br /><br /></p> + + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="quotation"> +<tr><td align='left'>"I'LL BE AT CHARGES FOR A LOOKING-GLASS,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> AND ENTERTAIN A SCORE OR TWO OF TAILORS"</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'><i>Richard III</i></td></tr> +</table> +</div> + +<p class="center">NEW YORK</p> + +<p class="center">FREDERICK WARNE & CO, INC</p> + +<p class="center">COPYRIGHT, 1903</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><img src="./images/inside_left.jpg" alt="Inside left cover" title="Inside left cover" /></p> + +<p class="center">BY</p> + +<p class="center">FREDERICK WARNE & Co.</p> + +<p class="center">COPYRIGHT RENEWED, 1931</p> + +<p class="center">[<i>All rights reserved</i>]</p> + +<p class="center">PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. BY PRINCETON POLYCHROME PRESS</p> + +<p class="center">ISBN O 7232 0594 9 (cloth) ISBN O-7232-6227-6 (paper)</p> + +<p class="center">12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20(C) +</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><i>MY DEAR FREDA,<br /> <br /> + + 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.</i></p> + +<p><i>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</i></p> + +<p class="center"> + <i>"No more twist!"</i><br /> +</p> + +<p><i>Christmas, 1901</i></p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/4.jpg"><img src="./images/4-tb.jpg" alt="Lady and Gentleman" title="Lady and Gentleman" /></a></p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER</h2> + + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>He sat in the window of a little shop in Westgate Street, cross-legged on +a table, from morning till dark.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/8.jpg"><img src="./images/8-tb.jpg" alt="The Tailor" title="The Tailor" /></a></p> + +<p>But although he sewed fine silk for his neighbours, he himself was very, +very poor—a little old man in spectacles, with a pinched face, old +crooked fingers, and a suit of thread-bare clothes.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/11.jpg"><img src="./images/11-tb.jpg" alt="Waistcoats for Mice" title="Waistcoats for Mice" /></a></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/12.jpg"><img src="./images/12-tb.jpg" alt="Well-dressed Miss" title="Well-dressed Miss" /></a></p> + +<p>One bitter cold day near Christmastime the tailor began to make a coat—a +coat of cherry-coloured corded silk embroidered with pansies and roses, +and a cream coloured satin waistcoat—trimmed with gauze and green +worsted chenille—for the Mayor of Gloucester.</p> + + + +<p>The tailor worked and worked, and he talked to himself. He measured the +silk, and turned it round and round, and trimmed it into shape with his +shears; the table was all littered with cherry-coloured snippets.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>When the snow-flakes came down against the small leaded window-panes and +shut out the light, the tailor had done his day's work; all the silk and +satin lay cut out upon the table.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/15.jpg"><img src="./images/15-tb.jpg" alt="Waistcoats for Mice" title="Waistcoats for Mice" /></a></p> + + +<p>There were twelve pieces for the coat and four pieces for the waistcoat; +and there were pocket flaps and cuffs, and buttons all in order. For the +lining of the coat there was fine yellow taffeta; and for the button-holes +of the waistcoat, there was cherry-coloured twist. And everything was +ready to sew together in the morning, all measured and sufficient—except +that there was wanting just one single skein of cherry-coloured twisted +silk.</p> + +<p>The tailor came out of his shop at dark, for he did not sleep there at +nights; he fastened the window and locked the door, and took away the key. +No one lived there at night but little brown mice, and they run in and out +without any keys!</p> + +<p>For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there +are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from +house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over +the town without going into the streets.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/16.jpg"><img src="./images/16-tb.jpg" alt="Down the Street" title="Down the Street" /></a></p> + +<p>But the tailor came out of his shop, and shuffled home through the snow. +He lived quite near by in College Court, next the doorway to College +Green; and although it was not a big house, the tailor was so poor he only +rented the kitchen.</p> + +<p>He lived alone with his cat; it was called Simpkin.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/19.jpg"><img src="./images/19-tb.jpg" alt="Waistcoats for Mice" title="Waistcoats for Mice" /></a></p> + + +<p>Now all day long while the tailor was out at work, Simpkin kept house by +himself; and he also was fond of the mice, though he gave them no satin +for coats!</p> + +<p>"Miaw?" said the cat when the tailor opened the door. "Miaw?"</p> + +<p>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; buy 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 buy me one penn'orth of cherry-coloured 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."</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/20.jpg"><img src="./images/20-tb.jpg" alt="Asleep by the Fire" title="Asleep by the Fire" /></a></p> + +<p>Then Simpkin again said, "Miaw?" and took the groat and the pipkin, and +went out into the dark.</p> + +<p>The tailor was very tired and beginning to be ill. He sat down by the +hearth and talked to himself about that wonderful coat.</p> + +<p>"I shall make my fortune—to be cut bias—the Mayor of Gloucester is to be +married on Christmas Day in the morning, and he hath ordered a coat and an +embroidered waistcoat—to be lined with yellow taffeta—and the taffeta +sufficeth; there is no more left over in snippets than will serve to make +tippets for mice——"</p> + +<p>Then the tailor started; for suddenly, interrupting him, from the dresser +at the other side of the kitchen came a number of little noises—</p> + +<p><i>Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip!</i></p> + +<p>"Now what can that be?" said the Tailor of Gloucester, jumping up from his +chair. The dresser was covered with crockery and pipkins, willow pattern +plates, and tea-cups and mugs.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/23.jpg"><img src="./images/23-tb.jpg" alt="Under the tea-cup" title="Under the Tea-Cup" /></a></p> + +<p>The tailor crossed the kitchen, and stood quite still beside the dresser, +listening, and peering through his spectacles. Again from under a tea-cup, +came those funny little noises—</p> + +<p><i>Tip tap, tip tap, Tip tap tip!</i></p> + +<p>"This is very peculiar," said the Tailor of Gloucester; and he lifted up +the tea-cup which was upside down.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/24.jpg"><img src="./images/24-tb.jpg" alt="Lady Mouse" title="Lady Mouse" /></a></p> + +<p>Out stepped a little live lady mouse, and made a curtsey to the tailor! +Then she hopped away down off the dresser, and under the wainscot.</p> + +<p>The tailor sat down again by the fire, warming his poor cold hands, and +mumbling to himself——</p> + +<p>"The waistcoat is cut out from peach-coloured satin—tambour stitch and +rose-buds in beautiful floss silk. Was I wise to entrust my last fourpence +to Simpkin? One-and-twenty button-holes of cherry-coloured twist!"</p> + +<p>But all at once, from the dresser, there came other little noises:</p> + +<p><i>Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip!</i></p> + +<p>"This is passing extraordinary!" said the Tailor of Gloucester, and +turned over another tea-cup, which was upside down.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/27.jpg"><img src="./images/27-tb.jpg" alt="Gentleman Mouse" title="Gentleman Mouse" /></a></p> + +<p>Out stepped a little gentleman mouse, and made a bow to the tailor!</p> + +<p>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—</p> + +<p><i>Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip</i>!</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/28.jpg"><img src="./images/28-tb.jpg" alt="More Mice" title="More Mice" /></a></p> + + +<p>The tailor sat down, close over the fire, lamenting—"One-and-twenty +button-holes of cherry-coloured silk! To be finished by noon of +Saturday: and this is Tuesday evening. Was it right to let loose those +mice, undoubtedly the property of Simpkin? Alack, I am undone, for I have +no more twist!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>And then all at once they all ran away together down the passage behind +the wainscot, squeaking and calling to one another, as they ran from house +to house; and not one mouse was left in the tailor's kitchen when Simpkin +came back with the pipkin of milk!</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/31.jpg"><img src="./images/31-tb.jpg" alt="Simpkin is back" title="Simpkin is back" /></a></p> + +<p>Simpkin opened the door and bounced in, with an angry "G-r-r-miaw!" like a +cat that is vexed: for he hated the snow, and there was snow in his ears, +and snow in his collar at the back of his neck. He put down the loaf and +the sausages upon the dresser, and sniffed.</p> + +<p>"Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my twist?"</p> + +<p>But Simpkin set down the pipkin of milk upon the dresser, and looked +suspiciously at the tea-cups. He wanted his supper of little fat mouse!</p> + +<p>"Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my TWIST?"</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/32.jpg"><img src="./images/32-tb.jpg" alt="Hiding the Twist" title="Hiding the Twist" /></a></p> + + +<p>But Simpkin hid a little parcel privately in the tea-pot, and spit and +growled at the tailor; and if Simpkin had been able to talk, he would have +asked: "Where is my MOUSE?"</p> + +<p>"Alack, I am undone!" said the Tailor of Gloucester, and went sadly to +bed.</p> + +<p>All that night long Simpkin hunted and searched through the kitchen, +peeping into cupboards and under the wainscot, and into the tea-pot where +he had hidden that twist; but still he found never a mouse!</p> + +<p>Whenever the tailor muttered and talked in his sleep, Simpkin said +"Miaw-ger-r-w-s-s-ch!" and made strange horrid noises, as cats do at +night.</p> + + + +<p>For the poor old tailor was very ill with a fever, tossing and turning in +his four-post bed; and still in his dreams he mumbled—"No more twist! no +more twist!"</p> + +<p>All that day he was ill, and the next day, and the next; and what should +become of the cherry-coloured coat? In the tailor's shop in Westgate +Street the embroidered silk and satin lay cut out upon the +table—one-and-twenty button-holes—and who should come to sew them, when +the window was barred, and the door was fast locked?</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/35.jpg"><img src="./images/35-tb.jpg" alt="Sewing" title="Sewing" /></a></p> + +<p>But that does not hinder the little brown mice; they run in and out +without any keys through all the old houses in Gloucester!</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/36.jpg"><img src="./images/36-tb.jpg" alt="Tailor is Ill" title="Tailor is Ill" /></a></p> + + +<p>Out of doors the market folks went trudging through the snow to buy their +geese and turkeys, and to bake their Christmas pies; but there would be no +Christmas dinner for Simpkin and the poor old Tailor of Gloucester.</p> + +<p>The tailor lay ill for three days and nights; and then it was Christmas +Eve, and very late at night. The moon climbed up over the roofs and +chimneys, and looked down over the gateway into College Court. There were +no lights in the windows, nor any sound in the houses; all the city of +Gloucester was fast asleep under the snow.</p> + +<p>And still Simpkin wanted his mice, and he mewed as he stood beside the +four-post bed.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/39.jpg"><img src="./images/39-tb.jpg" alt="Simpkin Leaves the House" title="Simpkin Leaves the House" /></a></p> + + +<p>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).</p> + +<p>When the Cathedral clock struck twelve there was an answer—like an echo +of the chimes—and Simpkin heard it, and came out of the tailor's door, +and wandered about in the snow.</p> + +<p>From all the roofs and gables and old wooden houses in Gloucester came a +thousand merry voices singing the old Christmas rhymes—all the old songs +that ever I heard of, and some that I don't know, like Whittington's +bells.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/40.jpg"><img src="./images/40-tb.jpg" alt="Simpkin in the Snow" title="Simpkin in the Snow" /></a></p> + + +<p>First and loudest the cocks cried out: "Dame, get up, and bake your pies!"</p> + +<p>"Oh, dilly, dilly, dilly!" sighed Simpkin.</p> + +<p>And now in a garret there were lights and sounds of dancing, and cats came +from over the way.</p> + +<p>"Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle! All the cats in +Gloucester—except me," said Simpkin.</p> + +<p>Under the wooden eaves the starlings and sparrows sang of Christmas pies; +the jack-daws woke up in the Cathedral tower; and although it was the +middle of the night the throstles and robins sang; the air was quite full +of little twittering tunes.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/43.jpg"><img src="./images/43-tb.jpg" alt="Hungry Simpkin" title="Hungry Simpkin" /></a></p> + + +<p>But it was all rather provoking to poor hungry Simpkin!</p> + +<p>Particularly he was vexed with some little shrill voices from behind a +wooden lattice. I think that they were bats, because they always have very +small voices—especially in a black frost, when they talk in their sleep, +like the Tailor of Gloucester.</p> + +<p>They said something mysterious that sounded like—</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Buz, quoth the blue fly, hum, quoth the bee,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Buz and hum they cry, and so do we!"</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>and Simpkin went away shaking his ears as if he had a bee in his bonnet.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/44.jpg"><img src="./images/44-tb.jpg" alt="Chattering Mice" title="Chattering Mice" /></a></p> + + + +<p>From the tailor's shop in Westgate came a glow of light; and when Simpkin +crept up to peep in at the window it was full of candles. There was a +snippeting of scissors, and snappeting of thread; and little mouse voices +sang loudly and gaily—</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">"Four-and-twenty tailors</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">Went to catch a snail,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">The best man amongst them</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">Durst not touch her tail,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">She put out her horns</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">Like a little kyloe cow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Run, tailors, run! or she'll have you all e'en now!"</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Then without a pause the little mouse voices went on again—</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Sieve my lady's oatmeal,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Grind my lady's flour,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Put it in a chestnut,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Let it stand an hour——"</span><br /> +</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/47.jpg"><img src="./images/47-tb.jpg" alt="Simpkin Cannot Get In" title="simpkin Cannot Get In" /></a></p> + +<p>"Mew! Mew!" interrupted Simpkin, and he scratched at the door. But the +key was under the tailor's pillow, he could not get in.</p> + +<p>The little mice only laughed, and tried another tune—</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Three little mice sat down to spin,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Pussy passed by and she peeped in.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">What are you at, my fine little men?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Making coats for gentlemen.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Shall I come in and cut off your threads?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Oh, no, Miss Pussy, you'd bite off our heads!"</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>"Mew! Mew!" cried Simpkin. "Hey diddle dinketty?" answered the little +mice—</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"Hey diddle dinketty, poppetty pet!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">The merchants of London they wear scarlet;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Silk in the collar, and gold in the hem,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">So merrily march the merchantmen!"</span><br /> +</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/48.jpg"><img src="./images/48-tb.jpg" alt="Clicking Thimbles" title="Clicking Thimbles" /></a></p> + +<p>They clicked their thimbles to mark the time, but none of the songs +pleased Simpkin; he sniffed and mewed at the door of the shop.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">"And then I bought</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">A pipkin and a popkin,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">A slipkin and a slopkin,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">All for one farthing——</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>and upon the kitchen dresser!" added the rude little mice.</p> + +<p>"Mew! scratch! scratch!" scuffled Simpkin on the window-sill; while the +little mice inside sprang to their feet, and all began to shout at once in +little twittering voices: "No more twist! No more twist!" And they barred +up the window shutters and shut out Simpkin.</p> + +<p>But still through the nicks in the shutters he could hear the click of +thimbles, and little mouse voices singing—</p> + +<p>"No more twist! No more twist!"</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/51.jpg"><img src="./images/51-tb.jpg" alt="Sleeping Peacefully" title="Sleeping Peacefully" /></a></p> + +<p>Simpkin came away from the shop and went home, considering in his mind. He +found the poor old tailor without fever, sleeping peacefully.</p> + +<p>Then Simpkin went on tip-toe and took a little parcel of silk out of the +tea-pot, and looked at it in the moonlight; and he felt quite ashamed of +his badness compared with those good little mice!</p> + +<p>When the tailor awoke in the morning, the first thing which he saw upon +the patchwork quilt, was a skein of cherry-coloured twisted silk, and +beside his bed stood the repentant Simpkin!</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/52.jpg"><img src="./images/52-tb.jpg" alt="Back to the Shop" title="Back to the Shop" /></a></p> + +<p>"Alack, I am worn to a ravelling," said the Tailor of Gloucester, "but I +have my twist!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The starlings whistled on the chimney stacks, and the throstles and robins +sang—but they sang their own little noises, not the words they had sung +in the night.</p> + +<p>"Alack," said the tailor, "I have my twist; but no more strength—nor +time—than will serve to make me one single button-hole; for this is +Christmas Day in the Morning! The Mayor of Gloucester shall be married by +noon—and where is his cherry-coloured coat?"</p> + +<p>He unlocked the door of the little shop in Westgate Street, and Simpkin +ran in, like a cat that expects something.</p> + +<p>But there was no one there! Not even one little brown mouse!</p> + +<p>The boards were swept clean; the little ends of thread and the little silk +snippets were all tidied away, and gone from off the floor.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/55.jpg"><img src="./images/55-tb.jpg" alt="Beautifullest Coat" title="Beautifullest Coat" /></a></p> + +<p>But upon the table—oh joy! the tailor gave a shout—there, where he had +left plain cuttings of silk—there lay the most beautifullest coat and +embroidered satin waistcoat that ever were worn by a Mayor of Gloucester.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/57.jpg"><img src="./images/57-tb.jpg" alt="No More Twist" title="No More Twist" /></a></p> + +<p>There were roses and pansies upon the facings of the coat; and the +waistcoat was worked with poppies and corn-flowers.</p> + +<p>Everything was finished except just one single cherry-coloured +button-hole, and where that button-hole was wanting there was pinned a +scrap of paper with these words—in little teeny weeny writing—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>NO MORE TWIST</p></div> + +<p>And from then began the luck of the Tailor of Gloucester; he grew quite +stout, and he grew quite rich.</p> + +<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/58.jpg"><img src="./images/58-tb.jpg" alt="Ruffles and Cuffs" title="Ruffles and Cuffs" /></a></p> + +<p>He made the most wonderful waistcoats for all the rich merchants of +Gloucester, and for all the fine gentlemen of the country round.</p> + +<p>Never were seen such ruffles, or such embroidered cuffs and lappets! But +his button-holes were the greatest triumph of it all.</p> + +<p>The stitches of those button-holes were so neat—<i>so</i> neat—I wonder how +they could be stitched by an old man in spectacles, with crooked old +fingers, and a tailor's thimble.</p> + +<p>The stitches of those button-holes were so small—<i>so</i> small—they looked +as if they had been made by little mice!</p> + + +<h2>THE END</h2> + +<p class="figcenter"><img src="./images/inside_right.jpg" alt="Inside right cover" title="Inside right cover" /></p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER *** + +***** This file should be named 14868-h.htm or 14868-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/6/14868/ + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online +Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Tailor of Gloucester + +Author: Beatrix Potter + +Release Date: February 2, 2005 [EBook #14868] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online +Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + +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_ + +[Illustration] + + + + +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. + +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. + +But although he sewed fine silk for his neighbours, he himself was very, +very poor--a little old man in spectacles, with a pinched face, old +crooked fingers, and a suit of thread-bare clothes. + +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. + +[Illustration] + +One bitter cold day near Christmastime the tailor began to make a coat--a +coat of cherry-coloured corded silk embroidered with pansies and roses, +and a cream coloured satin waistcoat--trimmed with gauze and green +worsted chenille--for the Mayor of Gloucester. + +[Illustration] + +The tailor worked and worked, and he talked to himself. He measured the +silk, and turned it round and round, and trimmed it into shape with his +shears; the table was all littered with cherry-coloured snippets. + +"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. + +When the snow-flakes came down against the small leaded window-panes and +shut out the light, the tailor had done his day's work; all the silk and +satin lay cut out upon the table. + +[Illustration] + +There were twelve pieces for the coat and four pieces for the waistcoat; +and there were pocket flaps and cuffs, and buttons all in order. For the +lining of the coat there was fine yellow taffeta; and for the button-holes +of the waistcoat, there was cherry-coloured twist. And everything was +ready to sew together in the morning, all measured and sufficient--except +that there was wanting just one single skein of cherry-coloured twisted +silk. + +The tailor came out of his shop at dark, for he did not sleep there at +nights; he fastened the window and locked the door, and took away the key. +No one lived there at night but little brown mice, and they run in and out +without any keys! + +[Illustration] + +For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there +are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from +house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over +the town without going into the streets. + +But the tailor came out of his shop, and shuffled home through the snow. +He lived quite near by in College Court, next the doorway to College +Green; and although it was not a big house, the tailor was so poor he only +rented the kitchen. + +He lived alone with his cat; it was called Simpkin. + +[Illustration] + +Now all day long while the tailor was out at work, Simpkin kept house by +himself; and he also was fond of the mice, though he gave them no satin +for coats! + +"Miaw?" said the cat when the tailor opened the door. "Miaw?" + +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; buy 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 buy me one penn'orth of cherry-coloured 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." + +[Illustration] + +Then Simpkin again said, "Miaw?" and took the groat and the pipkin, and +went out into the dark. + +The tailor was very tired and beginning to be ill. He sat down by the +hearth and talked to himself about that wonderful coat. + +"I shall make my fortune--to be cut bias--the Mayor of Gloucester is to be +married on Christmas Day in the morning, and he hath ordered a coat and an +embroidered waistcoat--to be lined with yellow taffeta--and the taffeta +sufficeth; there is no more left over in snippets than will serve to make +tippets for mice----" + +Then the tailor started; for suddenly, interrupting him, from the dresser +at the other side of the kitchen came a number of little noises-- + +_Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip!_ + +"Now what can that be?" said the Tailor of Gloucester, jumping up from his +chair. The dresser was covered with crockery and pipkins, willow pattern +plates, and tea-cups and mugs. + +The tailor crossed the kitchen, and stood quite still beside the dresser, +listening, and peering through his spectacles. Again from under a tea-cup, +came those funny little noises-- + +_Tip tap, tip tap, Tip tap tip!_ + +"This is very peculiar," said the Tailor of Gloucester; and he lifted up +the tea-cup which was upside down. + +[Illustration] + +Out stepped a little live lady mouse, and made a curtsey to the tailor! +Then she hopped away down off the dresser, and under the wainscot. + +The tailor sat down again by the fire, warming his poor cold hands, and +mumbling to himself---- + +"The waistcoat is cut out from peach-coloured satin--tambour stitch and +rose-buds in beautiful floss silk. Was I wise to entrust my last fourpence +to Simpkin? One-and-twenty button-holes of cherry-coloured twist!" + +But all at once, from the dresser, there came other little noises: + +_Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip!_ + +"This is passing extraordinary!" said the Tailor of Gloucester, and +turned over another tea-cup, which was upside down. + +[Illustration] + +Out stepped a little gentleman mouse, and made a bow to the tailor! + +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-- + +_Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip_! + +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. + +[Illustration] + +The tailor sat down, close over the fire, lamenting--"One-and-twenty +button-holes of cherry-coloured silk! To be finished by noon of +Saturday: and this is Tuesday evening. Was it right to let loose those +mice, undoubtedly the property of Simpkin? Alack, I am undone, for I have +no more twist!" + +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. + +And then all at once they all ran away together down the passage behind +the wainscot, squeaking and calling to one another, as they ran from house +to house; and not one mouse was left in the tailor's kitchen when Simpkin +came back with the pipkin of milk! + +[Illustration] + +Simpkin opened the door and bounced in, with an angry "G-r-r-miaw!" like a +cat that is vexed: for he hated the snow, and there was snow in his ears, +and snow in his collar at the back of his neck. He put down the loaf and +the sausages upon the dresser, and sniffed. + +"Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my twist?" + +But Simpkin set down the pipkin of milk upon the dresser, and looked +suspiciously at the tea-cups. He wanted his supper of little fat mouse! + +"Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my TWIST?" + +[Illustration] + +But Simpkin hid a little parcel privately in the tea-pot, and spit and +growled at the tailor; and if Simpkin had been able to talk, he would have +asked: "Where is my MOUSE?" + +"Alack, I am undone!" said the Tailor of Gloucester, and went sadly to +bed. + +All that night long Simpkin hunted and searched through the kitchen, +peeping into cupboards and under the wainscot, and into the tea-pot where +he had hidden that twist; but still he found never a mouse! + +Whenever the tailor muttered and talked in his sleep, Simpkin said +"Miaw-ger-r-w-s-s-ch!" and made strange horrid noises, as cats do at +night. + +[Illustration] + +For the poor old tailor was very ill with a fever, tossing and turning in +his four-post bed; and still in his dreams he mumbled--"No more twist! no +more twist!" + +All that day he was ill, and the next day, and the next; and what should +become of the cherry-coloured coat? In the tailor's shop in Westgate +Street the embroidered silk and satin lay cut out upon the +table--one-and-twenty button-holes--and who should come to sew them, when +the window was barred, and the door was fast locked? + +But that does not hinder the little brown mice; they run in and out +without any keys through all the old houses in Gloucester! + +[Illustration] + +Out of doors the market folks went trudging through the snow to buy their +geese and turkeys, and to bake their Christmas pies; but there would be no +Christmas dinner for Simpkin and the poor old Tailor of Gloucester. + +The tailor lay ill for three days and nights; and then it was Christmas +Eve, and very late at night. The moon climbed up over the roofs and +chimneys, and looked down over the gateway into College Court. There were +no lights in the windows, nor any sound in the houses; all the city of +Gloucester was fast asleep under the snow. + +And still Simpkin wanted his mice, and he mewed as he stood beside the +four-post bed. + +[Illustration] + +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). + +When the Cathedral clock struck twelve there was an answer--like an echo +of the chimes--and Simpkin heard it, and came out of the tailor's door, +and wandered about in the snow. + +From all the roofs and gables and old wooden houses in Gloucester came a +thousand merry voices singing the old Christmas rhymes--all the old songs +that ever I heard of, and some that I don't know, like Whittington's +bells. + +[Illustration] + +First and loudest the cocks cried out: "Dame, get up, and bake your pies!" + +"Oh, dilly, dilly, dilly!" sighed Simpkin. + +And now in a garret there were lights and sounds of dancing, and cats came +from over the way. + +"Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle! All the cats in +Gloucester--except me," said Simpkin. + +Under the wooden eaves the starlings and sparrows sang of Christmas pies; +the jack-daws woke up in the Cathedral tower; and although it was the +middle of the night the throstles and robins sang; the air was quite full +of little twittering tunes. + +[Illustration] + +But it was all rather provoking to poor hungry Simpkin! + +Particularly he was vexed with some little shrill voices from behind a +wooden lattice. I think that they were bats, because they always have very +small voices--especially in a black frost, when they talk in their sleep, +like the Tailor of Gloucester. + +They said something mysterious that sounded like-- + + "Buz, quoth the blue fly, hum, quoth the bee, + Buz and hum they cry, and so do we!" + +and Simpkin went away shaking his ears as if he had a bee in his bonnet. + +[Illustration] + +From the tailor's shop in Westgate came a glow of light; and when Simpkin +crept up to peep in at the window it was full of candles. There was a +snippeting of scissors, and snappeting of thread; and little mouse voices +sang loudly and gaily-- + + "Four-and-twenty tailors + Went to catch a snail, + The best man amongst them + Durst not touch her tail, + She put out her horns + Like a little kyloe cow, + Run, tailors, run! or she'll have you all e'en now!" + +Then without a pause the little mouse voices went on again-- + + "Sieve my lady's oatmeal, + Grind my lady's flour, + Put it in a chestnut, + Let it stand an hour----" + +[Illustration] + +"Mew! Mew!" interrupted Simpkin, and he scratched at the door. But the +key was under the tailor's pillow, he could not get in. + +The little mice only laughed, and tried another tune-- + + "Three little mice sat down to spin, + Pussy passed by and she peeped in. + What are you at, my fine little men? + Making coats for gentlemen. + Shall I come in and cut off your threads? + Oh, no, Miss Pussy, you'd bite off our heads!" + +"Mew! Mew!" cried Simpkin. "Hey diddle dinketty?" answered the little +mice-- + + "Hey diddle dinketty, poppetty pet! + The merchants of London they wear scarlet; + Silk in the collar, and gold in the hem, + So merrily march the merchantmen!" + +[Illustration] + +They clicked their thimbles to mark the time, but none of the songs +pleased Simpkin; he sniffed and mewed at the door of the shop. + + "And then I bought + A pipkin and a popkin, + A slipkin and a slopkin, + All for one farthing---- + +and upon the kitchen dresser!" added the rude little mice. + +"Mew! scratch! scratch!" scuffled Simpkin on the window-sill; while the +little mice inside sprang to their feet, and all began to shout at once in +little twittering voices: "No more twist! No more twist!" And they barred +up the window shutters and shut out Simpkin. + +But still through the nicks in the shutters he could hear the click of +thimbles, and little mouse voices singing-- + +[Illustration] + +"No more twist! No more twist!" + +Simpkin came away from the shop and went home, considering in his mind. He +found the poor old tailor without fever, sleeping peacefully. + +Then Simpkin went on tip-toe and took a little parcel of silk out of the +tea-pot, and looked at it in the moonlight; and he felt quite ashamed of +his badness compared with those good little mice! + +When the tailor awoke in the morning, the first thing which he saw upon +the patchwork quilt, was a skein of cherry-coloured twisted silk, and +beside his bed stood the repentant Simpkin! + +[Illustration] + +"Alack, I am worn to a ravelling," said the Tailor of Gloucester, "but I +have my twist!" + +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. + +The starlings whistled on the chimney stacks, and the throstles and robins +sang--but they sang their own little noises, not the words they had sung +in the night. + +"Alack," said the tailor, "I have my twist; but no more strength--nor +time--than will serve to make me one single button-hole; for this is +Christmas Day in the Morning! The Mayor of Gloucester shall be married by +noon--and where is his cherry-coloured coat?" + +He unlocked the door of the little shop in Westgate Street, and Simpkin +ran in, like a cat that expects something. + +But there was no one there! Not even one little brown mouse! + +The boards were swept clean; the little ends of thread and the little silk +snippets were all tidied away, and gone from off the floor. + +But upon the table--oh joy! the tailor gave a shout--there, where he had +left plain cuttings of silk--there lay the most beautifullest coat and +embroidered satin waistcoat that ever were worn by a Mayor of Gloucester. + +[Illustration] + +There were roses and pansies upon the facings of the coat; and the +waistcoat was worked with poppies and corn-flowers. + +[Illustration] + +Everything was finished except just one single cherry-coloured +button-hole, and where that button-hole was wanting there was pinned a +scrap of paper with these words--in little teeny weeny writing-- + + NO MORE TWIST + +And from then began the luck of the Tailor of Gloucester; he grew quite +stout, and he grew quite rich. + +He made the most wonderful waistcoats for all the rich merchants of +Gloucester, and for all the fine gentlemen of the country round. + +[Illustration] + +Never were seen such ruffles, or such embroidered cuffs and lappets! But +his button-holes were the greatest triumph of it all. + +The stitches of those button-holes were so neat--_so_ neat--I wonder how +they could be stitched by an old man in spectacles, with crooked old +fingers, and a tailor's thimble. + +The stitches of those button-holes were so small--_so_ small--they looked +as if they had been made by little mice! + + +THE END + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER *** + +***** This file should be named 14868.txt or 14868.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/6/14868/ + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online +Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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