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There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore, / Three rosy-cheeked School-boys, the highest not more / Than the height of a Counsellor's bag; / To the top of Great How21 did it please them to climb; / And there they built up, without mortar or lime, / A Man on the peak of the crag.
They built him of stones gathered up as they lay; / They built him and christened him all in one day, / An Urchin both vigorous and hale; / And so without scruple they called him Ralph Jones.
Now Ralph is renowned for the length of his bones; / The Magog of Legberthwaite dale.
Just half a week after, the wind sallied forth, / And, in anger or merriment, out of the North / Coming on with a terrible pother, / From the peak of the crag blew the Giant away.
And what did these School-boys? -- The very next day / They went and they built up another.