SCENE 2.
—The same. Jack the Giant-Killer is chopping furiously at the bean-stalk. His horn, his lantern, and his sword lie near at hand.
Voice of Kit (from above). Too late, Jacky, my boy. We’ve chopped off our end of the stalk; so we’re safe and sound.
(Shower of beans falls on Jack.)
CURTAIN.
ACT II.
SCENE 1.
—A room in Giant Greatbig’s Castle. Rear, left, window; fireplace, with lighted candle on the mantel, centre; door, right, rear. Bare wooden floor. Left, a big cradle, containing the Giant’s baby. A rocking-chair next the cradle. Right, a rude table, on it a drinking-mug as large as a bucket. Smoke-stained walls. At the rise, a ring-around dance is going on to lively music. Those dancing are the Giant, the Bear, the Dear Dragon, the Obliging Ogre, and the four lost children. The Motherly Giantess stands at right, beating time with a potato-masher on a chopping-bowl. The door bursts open. Enter the Three Happy Little Giants in great excitement.
First H. L. G. O papa! papa!