Storytime Day 3: The Tailor of Gloucester

Advent Day Three - Children's Christmas Story 2020 Similar to The Elves and the Shoemaker, these lovely mice take over sewing for an aged tailor at Christmas time, but have to 'paws' for his cat! Exerpt: "The Tailor of Gloucester" 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 about the tailor, the waistcoat, and the "No more twist!" Christmas, 1901 In the time of swords and peri wigs 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 snippetted, 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... The rest of the story ... Thanks For Visiting