`"I smell flesh of a man; yea, wife, tho' he prove but a ```morsel, `Man tastes good." She replied, "Sure thou be'est failing ```in eyesight; `'Tis but a young elephant, my sweetest lord, not a biped." `Down he crook'd his monstrous knees, and rested his hip- ```bones, `Call'd for his hen, said "Lay so she, with a chuck cock- ```a-doodle, `Dropt him an egg, pure gold, a refulgent, luminous ```oval,-- `That was her use:--when he push'd her aside, cried, ```"Bring me the meat now," `Gorged his enormous meal, fell prone, and lost recollection. `Jack from a saucepan watch'd his broad chest's monstrous ```upheavals: `Then to the chamber above both dame and tiger ascended. `"Now for it, hist!" says Jack--"coast clear, and none to ```behold me," `Airily Jack stole forth, and seized the plump, money- ```laying, `Priceless, mystical hen; ran forth, sped away to the bean- ```stalk, `Heard from afar, then near, heavy tramps, as a pavior ```hamm'ring, `Sprang down pod by pod, with a bounding, grasshopper ```action, `Left the Colossus aghast at an edge of his own little ```island, `Lighted on earth, whom she, that bare him, fondly ```saluting, `Dropt a maternal tear, and dried that tear with her ```apron, `Seeing him home and safe; and after it, all was a hey-day, `Lots of loaves, and tons of cheeses, a barnful of onions; `Cows and calves, and creams, and gold eggs piled to the ```ceilings: `Horses, goats, and geese, and pigs, and pugs by the ```hundred. `Ah! but he found in a while his life of laziness irk- ```some. `"Climb me," the bean-stalk said with a whisper. Jack, ```reascending, `Swarm'd to the wonderful isle once more, and high ```habitation; `Led by the fairy return'd to the fortress, pass'd to the ```kitchen, `Unseen, hied him again to the saucepans' grimy recesses, `Peep'd out into the room. The plump wife, peony- ```bulbous, `Toasted a constrictor, which roll'd in vast revolutions. `Then strode in, strong-booted again, with a roar, the ```Colossus: `Call'd for his harp, said "Play." So this, with a sharp ```treble ting-tong, `Play'd him an air, a delightful, long-drawn, national ```anthem, `Play'd him an air, untouch'd, (the strings, by a fairy ```magician `Wrought, were alive). Then he shouted aloud, "Wife, ```bring me the meat now," `Gorged his elongate meal; the snake in warm revolutions, `Making his huge bulk swell, disappear'd like Man's ```macaroni: `After, he yawn'd and snored, fell prone, and lost recol- ```lection. `So Jack seized the melodious harp, and bolted. A ```murmur `"Master, master, a rascal, a rascal!" rang thro' the harp- ```strings. `Quickly the monster awoke, and wielding a cudgel,-- ```an oak tree,-- `Chased little Jack with a shout of mighty, maniacal ```anger; `Jack to the beanpod sprang with a leap, and desperate ```hurl'd his `Limbs in a downward, furious, headlong pre-cipitation, `But for a wink up-glanced; his foeman's ponderous