Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 · Boston : Hall and Locks · leaf 125
nemy and seeing thegiant did not awake, Jack boldly seized the bags andthrowing them over his shoulders ran out of the kitchen.He reached the street door in safety and made hisway to the top of the bean-stalk, though he was greatlyincommoded with the weight of the money bags, forreally they were so… … Jack and the Bean-Stalk 93 prise the cottage was deserted; he ran from one room toanother without being able to find anyone. He thenhastened into the village, hoping to see some of theneighbors who could inform him where his mother was.An old woman at last directed him to a neighboringhouse. There…
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