Jack and the bean-stalk : English hexameters (1886)
Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928, Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886, ill · London ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 22
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. … JACK. 19 Nought in her house was left; not a cheese, not a loaf, not an onion ;Nought but a cow in her yard, and that must go to the market. Sell me the cow, cried she ; then he sold it, gad ! for a handful Only to think ! of beans.
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