JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK
English Hexameters
By Hallam Tennyson
Illustrated By Randolph Caldecott
London
Macmillan And Co.
And New York
1886
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
In his last letter to me Caldecott wrote: 'I have been making several attempts at the Giant, and have been cogitating over the Illustrations to "Jack" generally. During the winter I shall be able to show you some of my ideas.' The following unfinished Sketches are the 'ideas,' which, with Mrs. Caldecott's kind permission, have been reproduced.
H. T.
To My Father,
In Recognition Of What This Booklet Owes To Him,
And To My Nephews,
'Golden-Hair'd' Ally, Charlie, And Michael,
Who Have So Far Condescended
As To Honour It With Their Approbation.
JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK
JACK was a poor widow's heir, but he lived as a drone
in a beehive,
Hardly a handstir a day did he work. To squander her
earnings
Seem'd to the poor widow hard, who raved and scolded
him always.
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. She shied them out thro'
the window,
Cursing him: hied to her bed, there slept, but awoke in
amazeme