Project Gutenberg 2007-12-15 Public domain in the USA. 218 Anonymous Anonyme Anonymous, Anonymous The House That Jack Built, a Game of Forfeits To Which is Added, the Entertaining Fable of "The Magpie" Produced by Suzan Flanagan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The House That Jack Built; A Game of Forfeits" by Anonymous is a children's verse and illustrated book, likely written during the early 19th century. This engaging work introduces readers to a cumulative rhyme structure that narrates the story of a house built by a character named Jack, along with various interconnected characters and animals. The likely topic of the book centers on the whimsical sequence of events surrounding the home and its inhabitants. The storyline unfolds through a series of verses that describe Jack's house and the various characters associated with it. Each stanza builds upon the previous one, introducing elements such as a cat, a rat, and a dog, each causing a chain reaction of events that leads to increasingly humorous and chaotic situations. By the end, we meet a cast of characters including a maiden, a man, a priest, and even a cock, all intricately linked to Jack’s house. Additionally, the book features "The Magpie," a fable that shows the folly of the other birds as they attempt to learn nest building from the Magpie, ultimately realizing they have their own knowledge and abilities. This playful narrative style, along with engaging illustrations, makes the book an entertaining read for children and highlights themes of connection and community. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 75.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Nursery rhymes Fables PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Poetry 34024 2025-06-10T05:27:55.701164 text/html 29637 2007-12-15T10:40:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 644382 2007-12-15T10:40:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 621558 2025-06-10T05:28:01.476142 application/epub+zip 620224 2025-06-10T05:27:59.090139 application/epub+zip 68521 2025-06-10T05:27:57.809139 application/epub+zip 754452 2025-06-10T05:28:03.240627 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 746222 2025-06-10T05:28:00.666148 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 203055 2022-09-11T07:30:24.725983 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 23931 2025-06-10T05:27:55.382166 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 23807 2007-12-15T10:40:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 8354 2007-12-15T10:40:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18865 2025-06-10T05:28:03.370615 application/rdf+xml 17746 2025-06-10T05:27:58.348168 image/jpeg 3968 2025-06-10T05:27:58.077139 image/jpeg 896955 2025-06-10T05:27:55.736185 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Unknown en.wikipedia