Joseph Jacobs

"There once was upon a time a poor widow who had an only son Jack, and a cow called Milky-White."

"Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?"

"You don't know what these beans are, said the man . If you plant them overnight, by morning they grew right up to the sky."

"The sky is a-going to fall, I must go and tell the King."

"...he must need wish in a hurry; and wish he did, that the black pudding may come off his nose."

"But the Harp called out quite loud: Master! Master!"

"My man is an ogre and there is nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast."

"Out the Old Woman jumped . And whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there...or taken up by a constable to the House of Correction for the vagrant she was I cannot …"