The Fabulous Tale Of Tommy Talker
By well-wisher
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There was once a boy named Tommy Talker who had the remarkable power to speak to and understand all kinds of inanimate objects.
Even as a baby, Tommy would talk to his cradle and ask it to rock and the cradle would gently rock from side to side and, even though no one else could understand it, Tommy would hear it creak a lullaby.
One day however, the daughter of the king of Tommy's country vanished from her room in the royal palace and, though many wise and clever people tried to solve the mystery no one could find out where she had gone or how she had left her room without anyone seeing her.
And so the King, desperate for his daughters return, offered her hand in marriage to anyone who could find her and rescue her.
And Tommy, hearing about the princess's disappearance from a letter that had come in the post got upon his kitchen table and, when he asked it to giddy up, moving all four of its legs, it galloped just like a horse out of his house and, overtaking carts and coaches, galloped all the way to the palace of the king.
Then, talking to the princess's bedroom and the objects within it he asked them if they had seen or heard what had happened to the princess and they all gave the reply that a witch had appeared and had taken the princess, disappearing again by saying the words, "Rosirus Nosirus".
And so Tommy said the words "Rosirus Nosirus" and, to Tommy's amazement, a magic secret passageway like a ring of bright golden flame suddenly opened up in the middle of thin air and,when he walked through it, suddenly he found himself in a wicked witches house.
And, seeing the Princess sitting, tied up to a chair, he asked the ropes that bound her to undo themselves and, moving just like long snakes or worms, the ropes untied themselves setting the princess free.
But, unbeknown to Tommy, the witch who was in the next room,was watchng him through a little spyhole in the wall and seeing his powers, stuck her magic wand through the spy hole and used it to cast a sleeping spell on Tommy to put him to sleep.
"If he's sleeping then he can't talk", she thought to herself.
Then, entering the room, she picked Tommy up and put him in her cauldron .
But fortunately Tommy wore a pair of eye glasses that had seen the whole thing and the eyeglasses said to the other clothes that Tommy was wearing, "Listen. Our friend Tommy is in trouble".
"In trouble", asked his shirt and shoes, "Whats happened?".
"A witch", said his eyeglasses, "A witch has thrown him in her cauldron and intends to do something terrible to him".
"Then we must help him", said his trousers and socks, "We must wake him somehow".
"Agreed", said his eyeglasses, "But how?".
Just then, however, a little tin whistle that was in Tommys pocket, overhearing the conversation between the clothes poked out its head and said, "I know how to wake him. I can wake him with my whistle".
Then the whistle, blowing as hard as it could, made the longest and loudest whistle it had ever made and it whistled so loud that it woke Tommy from his slumber.
Unfortunately, the witch also heard the whistle and reached for her wand again.
But then, before she could do anything, Tommy spoke to the pointy hat upon her head and it pushed itself down so far over her eyes that couldn't see, then he spoke to her wand and it leapt right out of her hands and into his own and, using the wand he turned the witch into a spider and it scuttled off up a wall.
Then returning with the princess to the palace in a coach drawn by the wicked witch's own flying broom, Tommy Talker and she were married in a big royal cathedral with loudly chiming bells.
"What are they saying?", the Princess asked Tommy as she heard the bells.
"They're saying, "And they lived happily ever after" ", said Tommy.
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