Excerpt from The History of Jack and His Eleven Brothers: Displaying the Various Adventures They Encountered in Their Travels, &C., &C Once upon a time a man and his wife had twelve sons and a little daughter, whom the good old couple had brought up in the fear of God and the love of their neighbours, on a few acres of land which they cultivated with their own hands. Having fallen however under the displeasure of the Squire, he turned them out of the cottage, plucked up all the flowers in their little garden, and let swine into the farm in which they had lived so many years. The whole parish was sorry for their situation, and relieved them in private, because they were afraid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.