The Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter

[Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE FREDERICK WARNE First published 1902 Frederick Warne & Co., 1902 Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London [Illustr...

Beatrix Potter

AUTHOR OF "THE TAIL OF PETER RABBIT," &C. [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC.

Beatrix Potter

_Author of_ "_The Tale of Peter Rabbit_" [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE 1903 by Frederick Warne & Co.

Beatrix Potter

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything was perfectly swell.

Edgar Allan Poe

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

Heinrich Hoffmann

[Transcriber's Note: This book was first published in German in 1844, and in English translation in 1848.

Edgar Allan Poe

The "Red Death" had long devastated the country.