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Her eyes dive down the tankard—
*Tis raised, and down her throat

The drug and liquor vanish:
Results are not remote.

She feels at once the poison,
Jumps in the air with pain ;

Swims round like a teetotum,
And squeaks like one insane.

140 —*)

Next morn they onward journey;
| An Ogre in a cave
| Has taken certain pris’ners,

Whom Jack resolves to save.

He hides amidst the brushwood,
The Hedgehog acts as scout ;
The monster is at breakfast,

| And soon will sally out.

 

Jack offers now to bleed her,
His weapon swift applies ;

And quick as in the telling
She by her loved lord lies.

Jack throws them out of window—
Into the moat they sink ;

Then he and friendly Hedgehog
To fresh successes drink.

| Jack rolls along a great stone,

| All ready to cast down-—

| It hangs above the cave mouth—
| To crush the victim’s crown.

| The Hedgehog gives the signal,
| And swiftly on it rushes,

| At just the lucky moment,

| And the Giant crushes.
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