Jack and the bean-stalk : English hexameters (1886)
Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928, Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886, ill · London ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 36
I smell flesh of a man ; yea, wife, tho he prove but a morsel,Man tastes good. She replied, Sure thou beest failing in eyesight;Tis but a young elephant, my sweetest lord, not a biped.Down he crookd his monstrous knees, and rested his hip-bones, … 33 Calld for his hen, said, Lay ; so she, with a chuck cock- a-doodle, Dropt him an egg, pure gold, a refulgent, luminous oval,—That was her use :—when he pushd her aside, cried, Bring me the meat now,Gorged his enormous meal, fell prone, and lost recollection. 34
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