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

THE HISTORY OF LITTLE JACK.

T h k rk was once a poor lame old man that lived in the
midst of wide uncultivated moor, in the north of England.
He had formerly been a soldier, and had almost lost the us« of
one leg by n wound he had received in buttle* when he was
fighting against the enemies 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 )ie made shift
to cultivate with hia own hands,
and which supplied him with pota­
toes and other vegetables. Besides
this, he sometimes gained a few halfpence by opening1 a gate
for travellers, which stood near Ins house. In his walks over
the common, lie one day found a 7ittie 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