560 NURSERY RHYMES.

 

[The remainder of the history, which details Tom’s adventures with the Queen, his
coach drawn by six beautiful white mice, his escaping on the back of a butterfly, and
his death in a spider’s web, is undoubtedly a later addition to the original, and may
therefore be omitted in this analysis. It is, in fact, a very poor imitation of the first
part of the tale.]