The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-04
AtsG3rtu Constitution.


give them some fishing poles fifteen
feet long oday-wish had some
twenty feet long. They remind me Of
Jack and his bean vine-my children
and grandchildren never tire Of that
good old story How a poor widow
had little boy named Jack who was
good to his mother, and one day Jack
saw an old giant coming. His head
was as big rs small barrel, his eyes
as big as -auccrs, his nose as big as
my arm, his mouth like the end of
big stove pipe and his teeth like iron
spoons. He came up the road snort
ing like a horse, and was singing,
II smell the blood of an Englishman;
.\llvc or dead | must have some
Jack ran in the house to his mother
and she pulled up plank in the floor
and dropped Jack down in the cellar
and put the plank back, and moved
her chair and table on it, and sat.
down and went to knitting. Here
came the old giant, putting and blow
ing like steamboat lie didcnt eat
anything but little boys, and he peep
cd in at the door and said, I'm hun
cry and I'm hunting for a boy
Jacks mother told him she dident
have any boy for him, and to 20 off,
or she would set her big dog on him.
Then he walked all round the house
and looked down the chimney, for he
was as high as q tree, but he couldcnt
find Jack. When he went away and
was ont of sight, Jacks mother took
up the plank, and reaching her hand
down, she pulled Jack out Of the cell
lar. Soon after this poor old woman
came along and begged for something
to cat, and Jack and his mother fixed
her up good dinner and some coffee,
and the poor woman was so thankful
that she gave Jack bean and told
him TO plant it and it would grow as
high as the sky and have bushels and
bushels of beans, and the vine would
grow as high as tree in one night.
So Jack planted it right away, and
next morning he went out to see it,
and the top Of it was away up yonder
and he could see it growing higher and
higher. So he thought it would be
fun to climb it, and the stems Of the
leaves were strong enough to hold him
up like ladder, and he kept on climb
ing and the bean vine kept on growing
30 fast that Jack couldens catch up
With It, and By and By he got SO high
he couldent see the ground and before
long he got up to the clouds and
stepped off on the blue floor Of the
sky, and looking around at the beauti-
snl ocau:rS he saw great Gus house
that was built Of stone. So he walked
over to it and dident see anybody
not C. soul-nor dog nor cat nor horse
nor cow, but he heard great snoring
inside and saw bones all around the
yard. Then he peeped in and saw
that same old giant asleep on the floor
of the wide hall. His tongue was
hanging out Of his mouth and his face
was greasy and bloody, for he had
been eating somebody and laid down
to sleep, and his snoring shook the
house. Jack was awfully scared and
started to run, but he saw an OK near
the door, and he wondered if he could
ent kill that old giant while he was
asleep. So he slipped in on tiptoe
and raising up the ax as high as he
could, he brought it down on the old
giants neck, and with one blow cut
his head off. The blood spouted all
over the room and Jack ran away as
hard as he could. BY and by he slipp-
cd back to see, and sure enough the
giant was dead and had stopped kick
ing and the blood had stopped run
ming Jack caught his big head by
its long hair and dragged it away off
to the bean vine and took it down to
his mother, and the folks came to see
it from all over the country, and were
SO proud Of little Jack that they gave
him clothes and pocket knives and
marbles and balls, and ever afterwards
called him Jack the Giant Killer.
And there has never been another
giant in the world since, for he was
the last one. Many time have 1 got
the children to sleep on that story, for
Of course I vary it and cmhellish ;t