208 THE STRAND JAGAZINVE.

and arms as he hops cheerfully m the lett- head of the front door reaches to the hand corner. Baronial castles and moun- caves, and s then none too high for the tains, assorted, make an cficcuive back- passage of Jack's cnergetic parent. Still, ground. by cutting a picce

Our little collec- — out of the thatch a tion would scarcely window i= providedto be complete without lieht an upper floor; something represen- an upper floor about tative of the legend a foot or so high, and

of Jackand the Bean- | Bk} = & 'f - : | Dbarcly big enough, it stalk. Onc of the old Tlad N would scem, toaccems- books viclds usavery | s \\‘7 NG modate that msigni- instructive picture, § ;,2 2 ficant giant of the wherein we learn | ‘ castle. It that large many things. Iirst, ;- \\ W .l / black thing at the that the beanstalk ‘@ R Nl foot of the stalk be was about ten feet @E‘ AN \ \\\\\\ ,, \a ouc ot the hive sceds, high at most; this § = \N' / onc need wonder no ]udomo by the huoh* 2 ) I 3 longer at the size of of Jack's mother,w vho b vavil (% o the plant, but at the is coming after him | ST il ability ot Jack to with a broom and a i carry the sceds home.

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dog 1n a hig‘hly vigorous and gym- nastic manner, with- out hU)ppmg open the garden-gate. 'The castle at the top of the stalk, too, would scem to have been the portholes, to have about the size of a : , been about @ twenty- fdlll& 1211‘g(: mantel- JACK AND TIHE BEANSTALK. Gight-gllll Shi}),CXL‘]U— picce clock, and the sive of bow and stern glant—who could almost go into Jack’s chascers, of which there arc no clear in- pocket—looks uncommonly like the little dications. The upper part, it will be ob- weather-prophet who pops out of the old- served, consisted of a neat cricket pavilion. fashioned barometer. All this, however, Grandfather's picture-book amused and may be intended as an cffort o taught many good men in to conform to the rules of “ their childRood. Perhaps perspective 1 but still, one the few fragments ot 1t would like to know a little which are here presented morc about the internal may not altogether fail in arrangements of that cot- onc ot these objects to- tage. Consider 1t. The dav.

Fmallyv, as a tail- plecce, we print Noah's Ark as 1t ap- pearcd 1n grand- father’s picturc-book. It appears, as nearly as ascertainable from

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NOAIH'S ARK.