``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, [Illustration: 0037] `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. [Illustration: 0039] `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; [Illustration: 0041] [Illustration: 0042] ``Ran forth, sped away from the bean-stalk, `Heard from afar, then near, heavy tramps, as a pavior ```hamm'ring, [Illustration: 0044] [Illustration: 0045] ````With a bounding, grasshopper action, `Left the Colossus aghast at an edge of his own little island, [Illustration: 0047] `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, [Illustration: 0049] [Illustration: 0050] `Lots of loaves, and tons of cheeses, a barnful of onions; `Cows and calves, and creams, and gold eggs piled to the ```ceilings: `Horses, [Illustration: 0051] [Illustration: 0052] [Illustration: 0053] [Illustration: 0054] [Illustration: 0055] And pigs, "Idle Jack" `Ah! but he found in a while his life of laziness irksome. `"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." [Illustration: 0057] ````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). [Illustration: 0059] [Illustration: 0060] `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: [Illustration: 0061] `After, he yawn'd and snored, fell prone, and lost ```recollection. [Illustration: 0062] [Illustration: 0063] ```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,--