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there was any favour he could bestow upon her? Hop-o'-my-
thumb thanked the king, and desired that the Ogress might
have the noble title of Duchess of Draggletail given to her;
which was no sooner asked than granted. The Ogress then
came to court, and lived very happily for many years, enjoying
the vast fortune she had found in the Ogre’s chests. As for
Hop-o'-my-thumb, he every day grew more witty and brave ;
till at last the king made him the greatest lord in the kingdom,
and set him over all his affairs.

 

 

 

THE WISTORY OF LITTLE JACK.

‘Tiere was once a poor Jame old man that lived in the
midst of a wide uncultivated moor, in the north of England.
He had formerly been a soldier, and had almost lost the use of
one leg by a wound he had received in battle, when he was
fighting against the enemics of his country. This poor man
when he found himself thus dis-
abled, built a little hut of clay,
which he covered with turf dug
from the common. He had a little
bit of ground, which he made shift
to cultivate with his own hands,
and which supplied him with pota-
toes and other vegetables. Besides
this, he sometimes gained a few halfpence by opening a gate
for travellers, which stood near his house. In his walks over
the common, he one day found a little kid that had lost its
mother, and was almost famished with hunger: he took it
home to his cottage, fed it with the produce of his garden, and
nursed it till it grew strong and vigorous. Little Nan (for