Jack and the Beanstalk
watercolor 11”Hx7.5”W
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"Come along quick and jump in here," said the ogre's wife. And she bundled Jack into the oven just as the ogre came in.watercolor 11”Hx7.5”W
He was a big one, to be sure. At his belt he had three calves strung up by the heels, and he unhooked them and threw them down on the table and said, "Here, wife, broil me a couple of these for breakfast. Ah! what's this I smell?
"Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman,
Be he alive, or be he dead,
I'll have his bones to grind my bread."
Jack made up his mind to try his luck once more at the top of the beanstalk. So one fine morning, he rose early and got onto the beanstalk, and he climbed, climbed, climbed till at last, he came out onto the road again and up to the great tall house he had been to before.
Jack crept out of the oven on tiptoe and caught hold of the golden hen, and he rushed off to the beanstalk and climbed down like a house on fire.