Little Pig, the Little Elves, Teeny Tiny, Thumbelina, and Tom Thumb, as well as in tiny objects.  In the Tale of Tom Thumb the child is captivated by the miniature chariot drawn by six small mice, the tiny butterfly-wing shirt and chicken-skin boots worn by Tom, and the small speech produced by him at court, when asked his name:—­

          My name is Tom Thumb,
          From the Fairies I come;
          When King Arthur shone,
          This court was my home. 
          In me he delighted,
          By him I was knighted. 
          Did you never hear of
          Sir Thomas Thumb?

Doll i’ the Grass contains a tiny chariot made from a silver spoon and drawn by two white mice, and Little Two-Eyes gives a magic table.  The child takes keen delight in the fairy ship which could be folded up and put into a pocket, and in the wonderful nut-shell that could bring forth beautiful silver and gold dresses.  The little wagon of Chanticleer and Partlet that took them a trip up to the hill, and the tiny mugs and beds, table and plates, of Snow White’s cottage in the wood—­such as these all meet the approval of child-nature.

Rhythm and repetition.  The child at first loves sound; later he loves sound and sense, or meaning.  Repetition pleases him because he has limited experience and is glad to come upon something he has known before.  He observes and he wants to compare, but it is a job.  Repetition saves him a task and boldly proclaims, “We are the same.”  Such is the effect of the repetitive expressions which we find in Teeny Tiny:  as, “Now when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house, she was a teeny-tiny bit tired”; or, in Little Jack Rollaround, who cried out with such vigorous persistence, “Roll me around!” and called to the moon, “I want the people to see me!” In The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings, one of the pleasantest tales for little children, the White Rabbit said to his Mammy, “Oh, Mammy, I wish I had a long gray tail like Bushy Tail’s; I wish I had a back full of bristles like Mr. Porcupine’s; I wish I had a pair of red rubbers like Miss Puddleduck’s.”  At last, when he beheld the tiny red-bird at the Wishing-Pond, he said, “Oh, I wish I had a pair of little red wings!” Then, after getting his wings, when he came home at night and his Mammy no longer knew him, he repeated to Mr. Bushy Tail, Miss Puddleduck, and old Mr. Ground Hog, the same petition to sleep all night, “Please, kind Mr. Bushy Tail, may I sleep in your house all night?” etc.  Repetition here aids the child in following the characters, the story, and its meaning.  It is a distinct help to unity and to clearness.

The Elephant’s Child is an example of how the literary artist has used this element of repetition, and used it so wonderfully that the form is the matter and the tale cannot be