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English Fairy Tales by Unknown
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live un and a dead un."

So the ogre sat down to the breakfast and ate it, but every now and
then he would mutter: "Well, I could have sworn----" and he'd get up
and search the larder and the cupboards, and everything, only luckily
he didn't think of the copper.

After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: "Wife, wife, bring me
my golden harp." So she brought it and put it on the table before him.
Then he said: "Sing!" and the golden harp sang most beautifully. And
it went on singing till the ogre fell asleep, and commenced to snore
like thunder.

Then Jack lifted up the copper-lid very quietly and got down like a
mouse and crept on hands and knees till he got to the table when he
got up and caught hold of the golden harp and dashed with it towards
the door. But the harp called out quite loud: "Master! Master!" and
the ogre woke up just in time to see Jack running off with his harp.

Jack ran as fast as he could, and the ogre came rushing after, and
would soon have caught him only Jack had a start and dodged him a bit
and knew where he was going. When he got to the beanstalk the ogre was
not more than twenty yards away when suddenly he saw Jack disappear
like, and when he got up to the end of the road he saw Jack underneath
climbing down for dear life. Well, the ogre didn't like trusting
himself to such a ladder, and he stood and waited, so Jack got another
start. But just then the harp cried out: "Master! master!" and the
ogre swung himself down on to the beanstalk which shook with his
weight. Down climbs Jack, and after him climbed the ogre. By this time
Jack had climbed down and climbed down and climbed down till he was
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