beanstalk

Mr. Tall” is sort of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and that started to talk to “Jack and the Mad Dog.

Offhand, I can think of two Jacks—Jack of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” and Jack the Ripper, who cut quite a figure in his day.

And later, when the giant tries to climb after Jack, the beanstalk has to be chopped down pronto.

Thus the mosque which was now such a bone of contention came into being, growing with the rapidity of Jack's beanstalk.