The Tobacco King.

Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Tobacco King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JifN the wildest part of Russia, centuries ago, there lived a very happy family, although they were certainly very poor. Their life, too, was a hard one, amidst the vast regions of snow, in a land where the summer was only about two months long and the rest of the year cold and dreary. Many Fairies and Giants lived in the days that I am writing of, and one of these Giants was the cause of the only unhappiness which disturbed the family. His. name was Meegrums. Very horrible and terrible was he, and, having a spite against the father of the family, he, in an invisible form, came suddenly like a dark shadow on the little home. How he came into these parts no one was able to tell. Some say that his father was the north wind, some that his mother was a polar bear; others say that before he became changed into a Giant, -% I^ING. F*. ' ■ • JP ;-;v