Jack and the bean-stalk : English hexameters (1886)
Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928, Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886, ill · London ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 18
te mother, haste mother, oh! mother, haste, and bring me the hatchet!Cried Jack, alighting on earth. She brought him an axe double-handed.Jack cleft clean thro the haulm ; that Giant desperate hurld his Limbs in a downward, roaring, thundring pre-cipitation,Crashd to the ground stone-dead with a… … JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK Jack was a poor widows heir, but he lived as a drone in a beehive,Hardly a handstir a day did he work. To squander her earningsSeemd to the poor widow hard, who raved and scolded him always.
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