_Tom Thumb_, a burlesque opera, altered by Kane O’Hara (author of _Midas_), in 1778, from a dramatic piece by Fielding, the novelist (1730). Tom Thumb, having killed the giants, falls in love with Huncamunca, daughter of King Arthur. Lord Grizzle wishes to marry the princess, and when he hears that the “pygmy giant-queller” is preferred before him, his lordship turns traitor, invests the palace “at the head of his rebellious rout,” and is slain by Tom. Then follows the bitter end: A red cow swallows Tom, the queen, Dollallolla, kills Noodle, Frizaletta kills the queen, Huncamunca kills Frizaletta, Doodle kills Huncamunca, Plumantê kills Doodle, and the king, being left alone, stabs himself. Merlin now enters, commands the red cow to “return our England’s Hannibal,” after which the wise wizard restores all the slain ones to life again, and thus “jar ending,” each resolves to go home “and make a night on’t.” =Tom Tiddler’s Ground=, a nook in a rustic by-road, where Mr. Mopes, the hermit, lived, and had succeeded in laying it waste. In the middle of the plot was a ruined hovel, without one patch of glass in the windows, and with no plank or beam that had not rotted or fallen away. There was a slough of water, a leafless tree or two, and plenty of filth. Rumor said that Tom Mopes had murdered his beautiful wife from jealousy, and had abandoned the world. Mr. Traveller tried to reason with him, and bring him back to social life, but the tinker replied, “When iron is thoroughly rotten you cannot botch it, do what you may.”--C. Dickens, _A Christmas Number_ (1861). =Tom Tiler and His Wife=, a transition play between a morality and a tragedy (1578). =Tom Tipple=, a highwayman in Captain Macheath’s gang. Peachum calls him “a guzzling, soaking sot, always too drunk to stand himself or to make others stand. A cart,” he says, “is absolutely necessary for him.”--Gray, _The Beggar’s Opera_, i. (1727). =Tom Tram=, the hero of a novel entitled _The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram, Son-in-Law to Mother Winter, whereunto is added His Merry Jests, Odd Conceits and Pleasant Tales_ (seventeenth century). All your wits that fleer and sham, Down from Don Quixote to Tom Tram. Prior. =Tom-a-Thrum=, a sprite which figures in the fairy tales of the Middle Ages; a “queer-looking little auld man,” whose chief exploits were in the vaults and cellars of old castles. John Skelton, speaking of the clergy, says: Alas! for very shame, some cannot declyne their name; Some cannot scarsly rede, And yet will not drede For to kepe a cure.... As wyse as Tom-a-Thrum. _Colyn Clout_ (time, Henry VIII.). =Tom o’ Bedlam=, a ticket-of-leave madman from Bethlehem Hospital, or one discharged as incurable.