ift's Great Strengt

d her take what she wanted. She going home to her son Thomas, said, "Pray go to such a place, and fetch me a bundle of straw; I have asked leave." He swore he would not go.

and coming to the farmer's house, the master

the farmer, "take as much as thou can'st carry." So he

it was supposed to be near a thousand weight. "But," said they, "what a fool thou art; for thou can'st not carry the tithe of it." But, how

y one hiring him to work, seeing he had so much strength, all telling him it was a shame for him to lie idle as he d

g him to bring a tree home. So Tom

seeing them not able to stir it, said, "Stand aside, fools," and so set on the one end, and then put

they met the woodman; and Tom asked him

the woodman,

putting it on his shoulder, walked home with it fas

e natural strength than twenty common men, and from that time Tom began to grow very tractable; he would jump

e met, some went to wrestling, and some to cudg

the hammer: at length he took the hammer in his hand, and felt the weight of it

, "you will throw it a g

threw it into a river four or five furlong

ss, yet by main strength he flung all he grasped with; if once he but laid hol

rom him, and sometimes on their heads, ready to break their necks. So that at last none

great strength spread more