By him I was knighted.
Did you never hear of
Sir Thomas Thumb?

_Doll i' the Grass_ contains a tiny chariot made from a
silver spoon and drawn by two white mice, and _Little
Two-Eyes_ gives a magic table. The child takes keen delight
in the fairy ship which could be folded up and put into a
pocket, and in the wonderful nut-shell that could bring
forth beautiful silver and gold dresses. The little wagon of
Chanticleer and Partlet that took them a trip up to the
hill, and the tiny mugs and beds, table and plates, of Snow
White's cottage in the wood--such as these all meet the
approval of child-nature.

_Rhythm and repetition_. The child at first loves sound;
later he loves sound and sense, or meaning. Repetition
pleases him because he has limited experience and is glad to
come upon something he has known before. He observes and he
wants to compare, but it is a job. Repetition saves him a
task and boldly proclaims, "We are the same." Such is the
effect of the repetitive expressions which we find in _Teeny
Tiny_: as, "Now when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her
teeny-tiny house, she was a teeny-tiny bit tired"; or, in
_Little Jack Rollaround_, who cried out with such vigorous
persistence, "Roll me around!" and called to the moon, "I
want the people to see me!" In _The Little Rabbit Who Wanted
Red Wings_, one of the pleasantest tales for little
children, the White Rabbit said to his Mammy, "Oh, Mammy, I
wish I had a long gray tail like Bushy Tail's; I wish I had