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

JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK

JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK

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

amazement,

Seeing a huge bean-stalk, many leaves, many pods, many

flowers,

Rise to the clouds more tall than a tall California pine-

tree;

High as a lark was Jack, scarce seen, and climbing away

there.

"Where an' O where," * he shrill'd; she beheld his boots