Once on a time there was a little Old Woman who lived in a shoe. The shoe stood near a great forest, and was so large that it served as a house for old lady and all her children, of which she had so many that she did not know what to do with them. But the little old woman was very fond of her children, and they thought of the best way to please her. Strong-arm, the eldest, cut down trees for firewood. Peter made baskets of wicker-work. Mark was chief gardener.

 Lizzie milked the cow, and Jenny taught the younger children to read. Now this little old woman had not always lived in a shoe. She and her family had once dwelt in a nice house covered in ivy, and her husband was a wood-cutter, like strong-arm. But there lived in a huge castle beyond the forest, a fierce giant, who one day came and laid their house in ruins with his club after which he caried off the poor wood-cutter to his castle beyond the forest.

When the little old woman came home, her house was in ruins and her husband was no where to be seen. Night came on, and as he father did not return, the old little lady and her family went to search for him. When they came to that part of the wood where the giant had met their father, they saw an immense shoe. They spend a lot of time weeping and calling out for their father. but met no reply.

Where is our father

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Then the old lady thought that they had better take  shelter in the shoe until they could build a new house. So Peter and strong-Arm put a roof to it, and cut a door, and turned into a dwelling. Here they lived happily for many years, but the little old lady never forgot her husband and his sad fate. Strong-Arm, who saw how wretched his mother often was about it, proposed to the next eleven brothers that they should go with him and set their father free from the giant.