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 How 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.

* Great How is a single and conspicuous hill which rises towards the foot of Thirlmere, on the western side of the beautiful dale of Legberthwaite, along the highroad between Keswick and Ambleside.