Jack Stump

Famous quotes containing the words jack and/or stump:

“This is the cat
That killed the rat”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 7–8)

“The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)