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Tonight, I will be reading The Taylor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

In the time of swords and periwigs and full skirted coats with flowered lapets,

when gentlemen wore ruffles and gold-laced waistcoats of Padua Soi and taffeta, they lived a tailor and 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 snippeted,

piecing out his satin and pompadour and lute string.

Stuff had strange names and were very expensive in the days of the tailor of Gloucester.

But although he sewed fine silk for his neighbours,

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