JACK THE GIANT KILLER.
By Percival Leigh
The Author Of "The Comic Latin Grammar."
With Illustrations by JOHN LEECH
1853
Original Size -- Medium-Size
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CONTENTS
JACK'S BIRTH, PARENTAGE, EDUCATION, AND EARLY PURSUITS.
HOW JACK SLEW THE GIANT CORMORAN.—-
JACK SURPRISED ONCE IN THE WAY
JACK SCRAPES AND ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE PRINCE OF WALES
JACK SETTLES THE REMAINING GIANTS AND SETTLES DOWN
THE ARGUMENT.
I sing the deeds of famous Jack, The doughty Giant Killer hight; How he did various monsters "whack," And so became a gallant knight.
In Arthur's days of splendid fun (His Queen was Guenever the Pliant),— Ere Britain's sorrows had begun; When every cave contained its giant;
When griffins fierce as bats were rife; And till a knight had slain his dragon, At trifling risk of limbs and life, He did n't think he'd much to brag on;
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When wizards o'er the welkin flew; Ere science had devised balloon; And 'twas a common thing to view A fairy ballet by the moon;—
Our hero played his valiant pranks; Earned loads of kudos, vulgô glory, A lady, "tin," and lots of thanks;— Relate, oh Muse! his wondrous story.
OF GIANTS IN GENERAL.
A Giant was, I should premise, A hulking lout of monstrous size; He mostly stood—I know you 'll laugh— About as high as a giraffe. His waist was some three yards in girth: When he walked he shook the earth. His eyes were of the class called "goggle," Fitter for the scowl than ogle. His mouth, decidedly carnivorous, Like a shark's,—the Saints deliver us! He yawned like a huge sarcophagus, For he was an Anthropophagus,
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