200

the Welsh Giant. Ifirst he i1z pounding away (quite reckless of his own bed-linen) at the supposed Jack, who 1s represented in the story by a billet of wood, and in the

JACK KILLS CORMGORAN.,

picture by what looks likea scliool bell-tower, or a patent chimney-pot. With so much light in the room as the picture shows, how- cver, the grant must have had a good deal of cold tea tor supper to mistake the chim- nev-pot tor Jack, or to tail to notice that artful person standimg in the hightest comer.

[LNTIRT AT

%)

i |

R

‘a

HE STRANGLFS THE GIANTS,

Next the wicked Welsh Giant is commit- ting involuntary suicide in his rash attempt to play ** follow-my-leader " 1n the porridge- bag trick. That long white thing hanging out of the hole 1n the giant’s waistcoat 1s not his shirt, as might be supposed, but

ITIS ARTFULNESS,

blood, which scems to have frozen into a tall heap. Note, too, the delicate way in

77 STRAND MAGAZINE.

which the giant’s nationality is sugeested, by a leck tastefully worn in the hair. In the last two pictures Jack appears in bis imvisible cloak, and evervbody must admire

HE SHOWS THE GIANT A TRICK.

the boldness with which the artist has grappled with the dithculty of repic-enting 4 man made mvisible mmoa picture. . The recipe 1s a =simple one—draw him rarhor larger than usual, more clearlv, and blacker; espectally make the mvisible cloak as black and as visible as possible, and there ven

TIHE GIANT AND 1S PRISONERS,

are. In the last of these pictures, Jack is slashing off the nose of one of his cus- tomers. It is a very fine and large nose, of the sort that you buy for a pennyv at a fair, The giant appears to be muaking a wild attempt to catch it, although thuat would

HE SLICES OFF THE GTANT'S NOSE.

scem scarcely wise, for he certainly looks & deal handsomer without it.