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a boy who took long walks,

Who lived on beans and ate the stalks;

To the Giants' Country he lost his way;

They kept him there for a year and a day.

But he has not been the same boy since;

An alteration he did evince;

For you may suppose that he underwent

A change in his notions of extent!

He looks with contempt on a nice high door,

And tries to walk in at the second floor;

He stares with surprise at a basin of soup,

He fancies a bowl as large as a hoop;

He calls the people minikin mites;

He calls a sirloin a couple of bites!

Things having come to these pretty passes,

They bought him some magnifying glasses.