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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
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for breakfast. Come here, child; go into my wardrobe; he never ventures to open that; you will be safe there.’
And she opened a huge wardrobe which stood in the great hall, and shut him into it. But the keyhole was so large that it
admitted plenty of air, and he could see everything that took place through it. By-and-by he heard a heavy tramp on the stairs, like the lumbering along of a great cannon, and then a voice like thunder cried out: