: The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Kellogg Samuel H Samuel Henry Nicoll W Robertson William Robertson Sir Editor - Bible. Leviticus Criticism interpretation etc.; Bible. Leviticus Commentaries

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Illustrator: John Leech

JACK THE GIANT KILLER.

The Author Of "The Comic Latin Grammar."

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 ,-- 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;

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;--

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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