Tied By The Hair Of Their Heads!

“Three Fair Ladies Tied by the Hair of Their Heads.”
JACK THE GIANT-KILLER.
Mother Fairy-Tales
Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1908.
Illustrator: R. A. Bell.

Then, taking the giant’s keys, and unlocking the rooms, he found three fair ladies tied by the hair of their heads, almost starved to death.

“Sweet ladies,” quoth Jack, “I have killed this monster and his brutish brother, and so set you free.”

“Fee, fi, fo, fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!”

“Jack Defied Giant Thunderdell and Led Him Toward the Drawbridge.”
JACK THE GIANT-KILLER.
Mother Fairy-Tales.
Henry Altemus Company: Philadelphia. 1908.

“Fee, fi, fo, fum!

I smell the blood of an Englishman!

Be he alive or be he dead,

I’ll grind his bones to make me bread!”