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walked straight down a crooked passage, then my nose against a wall, then stumbled coal-scuttle of the period which had l been left in the way, and at last found myself in a dark room, which I at once recognised as
mm
snail
of threepence per pack will not a an
out
bold
just as I had intended, a large flat I need with a ring in the middle of it. baldly add that on lifting up this stone I beThese I descended, B flight of steps. then turned light round to the left, then
lost
b pre-
ing to the present Act, payn ti»«.-
1864.
2,
•peculator* to exerv
Brown Study. In the middle of this study was a table, in the middle of the table was a drawer, and in the middle of the drawer lay a large folio and book, in the great magician's own hand what do you think this was ? Why, the original manuscript of the History of Jack the Giant Killer. Now I know Merlin's waiting Merlin's
sequently the sniallness
.
,
con-
though
it
e the t<n:j.tati.>n to
fraudulent
practices.
We
also
that a pack an article of is luxury which could well bear a higher tax than one of threepence ami we further eni
tertain a very strong opinion that the tax on playing-cards is capable of rigid enforcement.
as well as I
per regulations not a single pack need eaoape ; and then even the threepenny
so I immediately sat
card stamp would produce than the late shilling duty.
L>
my much
for
down and read
the whole
of it. Then, thinking that I had stayed away from home long enough, I put back the book, shut the drawer, walked up the steps, filled in the trench, smoothed the turf over it, and went away by the mail-train that very night and when you go to Camelot yourself you will not find the least trace of my having been
a larger amount
KILLER MARRIED
1
am as familiar am with Hebrew
do yours, and I
with the ancient British as I
SETTLED.
there before you.
I never could care part Jack the Giant Killer after he had I
I
must now
you what
tell
my
great disco-
J
coat of darkness, the shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness, and the cap of knowI could kill ledge. giants myself with such an a
and one cannot help feeling something unfair and unmanly in magic weapons, even against ogres. A ss
that
that there
is
real hero should disdain ••is
any conquest except he can obtain by his own skill and
eouafa. Those being my sentiments, I was much delighted by a di«< little while thing parinto
I
Somersetshire, Oastle of Camelot (now oalled to see if I coul
very was, for I don't call the little matters that I have mentioned hitherto discoveries they are mere trifles to me, I do such things every day, and think nothing of them my great discovery was, that the manuscript contained a Third Part of the adventures of Jack, besides the Two Parts that we know so well This Third Part was full of the most already. wonderful, surprising, and delightful adven-
—
—
I recollect every word of it, of course, and could say off the whole by heart if I chose, but as it was in nine hundred and ninety-nine chapters, perhaps you would find it rather tedious, so I had better only tell you g
tures
out of it to-day. The only iv think of why this Part has always been left out by the editors is, that it does (I must dtain something like a Moral, which but you certainly has no business in a story bits
Winchester*), about
Merlin
,
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tioe
t]l l
harm, En
it,
and then
it
do you no
hope. the first place, it turns out whom .lack called 1
thai i
I
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at,
soon
will
the
ah
I,
in
•
much
longer,
he would soon land and he
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