English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs Back goes Jack home, and as he hadn’t gone very far it wasn’t dusk by the time he got to his door. “What back, Jac ...

English Fairy Tales “It’s breakfast you want, is it?” says the great big tall woman, “it’s breakfast you’ll be if you don’t move ...

Joseph Jacobs passing the ogre he took one of the bags of gold under his arm, and off he pelters till he came to the beanstalk, ...

English Fairy Tales And the wife said: “Why, my dear?” But that was all Jack heard, for he rushed off to the beanstalk and climb ...

Joseph Jacobs Jack ran as fast as he could, and the ogre came rushing after, and would soon have caught him only Jack had a star ...

English Fairy Tales THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS Once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme And monkeys chewed tobacco, And he ...

Joseph Jacobs Well, he huffed, and he puffed, and he huffed and he puffed, and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the ho ...

English Fairy Tales which he was going home with, when he saw the wolf com- ing. Then he could not tell what to do. So he got in ...

Joseph Jacobs One day the master was out, and then the lad, as curious as could be, hurried to the chamber where his master kept ...

English Fairy Tales barrels full. It rose to his armpits, and he scrambled to the table-top. And now the water in the room stood ...

Joseph Jacobs weeps, and so I hop;” “then,” said the broom, “I’ll sweep,” so the broom began to sweep. “Then,” said the door, “B ...

English Fairy Tales just by on the top of a ladder thatching a rick, and when he saw the little girl spill the milk, he said: “L ...

Joseph Jacobs for you to go, and God be with you.”—(The old woman thought for the best when she said that.)—”But stop a bit befo ...

English Fairy Tales “All right,” said Jack; and away he went to his bed, and said his prayers quietly, and slept till it was nea ...

Joseph Jacobs The gentleman now makes a large hunting party, and in- vites all the gentlemen around the country to it, and to se ...

English Fairy Tales he and the King went on to the fields; and the King called all the mice together, and asked them whether the ...

Joseph Jacobs him in his other waistcoat pocket. And away he went again on his great long journey; it was three times as long th ...

English Fairy Tales for three days and three nights; and up he comes, and shows his nose and little mouth out of the water; and ...

Joseph Jacobs going on with what they begun with, they very near came to danger, as the castle was once very near sinking in the ...

English Fairy Tales THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS ONCE UPON A TIME there were Three Bears, who lived to- gether in a house of the ...