Jack and the bean-stalk : English hexameters (1886)
Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928, Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886, ill · London ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 68
Down rushd big pods, and bean avalanches. Haste 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 hisLimbs in a downward, roaring, thundring…
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