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Brown Study. In the middle of this study was a table, in the middle of the table was a drawer, and in the middle of the drawer lay a large folio and book, in the great magician's own hand what do you think this was ? Why, the original manuscript of the History of Jack the Giant Killer. Now I know Merlin's waiting Merlin's



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tertain a very strong opinion that the tax on playing-cards is capable of rigid enforcement.

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per regulations not a single pack need eaoape ; and then even the threepenny

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card stamp would produce than the late shilling duty.

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down and read

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of it. Then, thinking that I had stayed away from home long enough, I put back the book, shut the drawer, walked up the steps, filled in the trench, smoothed the turf over it, and went away by the mail-train that very night and when you go to Camelot yourself you will not find the least trace of my having been

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there before you.

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coat of darkness, the shoes of swiftness, the sword of sharpness, and the cap of knowI could kill ledge. giants myself with such an a

and one cannot help feeling something unfair and unmanly in magic weapons, even against ogres. A ss

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real hero should disdain ••is

any conquest except he can obtain by his own skill and

eouafa. Those being my sentiments, I was much delighted by a di«< little while thing parinto

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very was, for I don't call the little matters that I have mentioned hitherto discoveries they are mere trifles to me, I do such things every day, and think nothing of them my great discovery was, that the manuscript contained a Third Part of the adventures of Jack, besides the Two Parts that we know so well This Third Part was full of the most already. wonderful, surprising, and delightful adven-

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I recollect every word of it, of course, and could say off the whole by heart if I chose, but as it was in nine hundred and ninety-nine chapters, perhaps you would find it rather tedious, so I had better only tell you g

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out of it to-day. The only iv think of why this Part has always been left out by the editors is, that it does (I must dtain something like a Moral, which but you certainly has no business in a story bits

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