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George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore,

Three rosy-cheeked School-boys, the highest not more

Than the height of a Counsellor's bag;

To the top of did it please them to climb;

And there they built up, without mortar or lime,

A Man on the peak of the crag.

They built him of stones gathered up as they lay;

They built him and christened him all in one day,

An Urchin both vigorous and hale;

And so without scruple they called him Ralph Jones.

Now Ralph is renowned for the length of his bones;

The Magog of Legberthwaite dale.