Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk teach you how to take advantage of the opportunities that life provides you, of course with a little studying the advantages and disadvantages of every situation.
Jack’s decision to climb the beanstalk is an example of taking the opportunities life provides you. When he starts climbing, he doesn’t know where that path will lead him or if that path will lead somewhere at all. He knows that he may face danger, but he has no idea what that danger might be. Despite all these, he climbs the beanstalk to find his luck. In the end, Jack is rewarded for his bravery proving the old saying that “fortune favors the bold.”
Jack and the Beanstalk
There was, once upon a time, a poor widow who had an only son named Jack
and a cow named milky-white, and all they had to live on was the milk the cow gave
every morning which they carried to the market and sold, but one morning milky
white gave no milk, and they didn’t know what to do. “what shall we do?
What shall we do.” said the widow wringing her hands. “cheer up, Mother, I’ll go and
get work somewhere,” said Jack. “We’ve tried that before; nobody would take you,”
said his mother, “we must sell milky white and, with the money, do something so that
shop or something”, “all right Mother,” says Jack, “It’s the market day today, and I’ll
soon sell milky white, and then we’ll see what we can do”, so he took the cows halter
in his hand, and off he starts. He hadn’t gone far when he met a funny-looking old
man who said to him, “good morning Jack”, “Good morning to you,” said Jack,
and wondered how he knew his name, “well Jack and where you off to” said the man
“I’m going to market to sell our cow here” “Oh you look the proper sort of chapter
so cows,” said the man, “I wonder if you know how many beans make five two in
each hand and one in your mouth,” says Jack as sharp as a needle, “right you are.”
said the man “And here they are, the very beans themselves” he went on pulling
out of his pocket some strange-looking beans “As you are so sharp,” says he
“I don’t mind swapping with you, your cow, for these beans, Walker,” says Jack,
“wouldn’t you like it,” “Ah you don’t know what these beans are,” said the man
“if you plant them overnight, by morning, they grow right up to the sky, “really,”
says Jack, “You don’t say so,” “Yes that is so, and if it doesn’t turn out to be true
you can have your cow back”, “right,” says Jack, and hands him over milky white
halter and pockets the beans, that goes Jack home, and as he hadn’t gone very far,
it wasn’t dusk by the time he got to his door “What back, Jack,” said his mother
“I see you haven’t got milky white, so you’ve sold her; how much did you get for her,”
“you’ll never guess, Mother,” says Jack, “no, you don’t say, so good boy, five pounds,
ten-fifteen, no, it can’t be 20″, “I told you you couldn’t guess, what do you say
to these beans, they’re magical, plant them overnight and.. “what!?” says Jack’s
mother, “Have you been such a fool, “such a dolt, such an idiot, as to give away
my milky white, the best milker in the parish, and prime beef to boot for a set
of poultry beans?!! take that, take that, take that, and as for your precious beans
here they go out of the window, now off with you to bed, not as such are you
drinking, not a bit shall you swallow this very night”, so Jack went upstairs
to his little room in the attic, and sad and sorry, he was to be sure as much for his
mother’s sake as for the loss of his supper, at last, he dropped off to sleep.
when he woke up, the room looked so funny, the Sun was shining into part of it,
and yet all the rest was quite dark and shady, so Jack jumped up and dressed,
and went to the window, and what do you think he saw?! why?
the beans his mother had thrown out of the window into the garden had sprung up
into a big Beanstalk which went up and up and up till it reached the sky, so the man
spoke the truth; after all, the Beanstalk grew up a quite close past Jack’s window
so all he had to do was to open it and give a jump up to the Beanstalk, which was
made like a big plaited letter.
So Jack Klein’s had he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed,
and he climbed so that last he reached the sky, and when he got there, he found
a long broad road going as straight as a dart, so he walked along, and he walked
along, and he walked along so they came to a great big tall house, and on the
doorstep, there was a great big tall woman good morning Mum says “Jack, quite
polite like should you be, so kind, as to give me some breakfast,” for he hadn’t had
anything to eat you know the night before and was as hungry as a hunter, “its
breakfast you want is it” says the great big tall woman, “it’s breakfast you’ll be
if you don’t move off from here, my nan is an ogre, and there’s nothing he likes
better than boys broiled on toast, you’d better be moving on, or he’ll soon
becoming”, “oh please, Mum do give me something to eat, mum I’ve had nothing
to eat since yesterday morning”, “really and truly Mum” says, Jack,”
“I may as well be broiled as died of hunger,” well the ogre’s wife wasn’t such a bad
sort, after all, so she took Jack into the kitchen and gave him a junk of bread
and cheese and a jug of milk, but Jack hadn’t half finished these when
“thump-thump-thump,” the whole house began to tremble with the noise
of someone coming “Goodness gracious me, it’s my old man,” said the ogre’s wife,
“What on earth shall I do, here come quick and jump in here, and she bundled Jack
into the oven just as the ogre came in; he was a big one, to be sure, at his belt
he had three calves strung up by the heels, and he unhooked them and threw them
down on the table, and said “Wife brought me a couple of these for breakfast,
“ah, what’s this? I smell fie fie foe fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, beginning
your lie or be he dead, I’ll have his burns to grind my bread”, “nonsense dear.”
said his wife, “you’re dreaming, or perhaps you smell the scraps of that boy
you liked so much for yesterday’s dinner, here go you and have a wash and tidy up,
and by the time you come back, your breakfast will be ready for you”, so the ogre
went off, and Jack was going to jump out of the oven and run off when
the woman told him not, “wait till he’s asleep” says she, “he always has a snooze
after breakfast”, well the ogre had his breakfast, and after that,
he goes to a big chest and takes out of it a couple of bags of gold, and sits down
counting them so that last his head began to nod and he began to snore
to the whole house shook again, then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven,
and as he was passing the ogre, he took one of the bags of gold under his arm
and off the Pelton’s till he came to the Beanstalk, and then he threw down
the bag of gold, which of course fell into his mother’s garden, and then he climbed
down and climbed down till at last he got home and told his mother, and showed
her the gold and said, “well Mother wasn’t I right about the beans, they are really
magical you see”, so they lived on the bag of gold for some time, but at last,
they came to the end of that.
So Jack made up his mind to try his luck once more up at the top of the Beanstalk,
so one fine morning he got up early and got onto the Beanstalk, and he climbed
and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed
so that last he had got on the road again and came to the great big tall house he’d
been to before, there, sure enough, was the great big tall woman standing
on the doorstep “Good morning, mum,” says Jack “as Bold As Brass could you be,
so good as to give me something to eat”, “go away my boy,” said the big tall woman,
or else, my man will eat you up for breakfast but aren’t you the youngster
who came here once before, do you know that every day my man missed one
of his bags of gold”, “That strange man” says Jack “I dare say I could tell you
something about that, but I’m so hungry, I can’t speak till I’ve had something to eat”,
well the big tall woman was that curious that she took him in and gave him
something to eat, but he had scarcely begun munching it as slowly as he could,
when“thump-thump-thump,” they heard the Giants footstep and his wife hid Jack
away in the oven, all happened as it did before in Kane, the ogre as he did before
said, “fee fie foe fum,” and had his breakfast of three broiled oxen then he said
“wife bring me the hen that lays the golden eggs,” so she brought it, and the ogre
said “Lay and laid an egg all of the gold,” and then the ogre began to nod his head
and to snore to the house shook, then Jack crept out of the oven on tiptoe
and caught hold of the golden hen, and was off before you could say, Jack Robinson,
but this time, the hen gave a cackle which woke the ogre, and just as Jack got out of
the house he heard him calling “Wife, wife what have you done with my golden hen,”
and the wife said “Why my dear”, but that was all Jack heard for he rushed off to the
Beanstalk and climbed down like a house on fire, and when he got home, he showed
his mother the wonderful head and said, “Lay to it,” and it laid a golden egg every
time he said, “Lay.”
Well, Jack was not content, and it wasn’t very long before he determined to have
another try at his luck up there at the top of the Beanstalk, so one fine morning
he got up early and went on to the Beanstalk, and he climbed, and he climbed,
and he climbed, and he climbed till he got to the top, but this time, he knew better
than to go straight to the ogre’s house, and when he got near it, he waited behind
a bush till he saw the ogre’s wife come out with a pail to get some water and then
he crept into the house and got into the copper he hadn’t been there when he heard
“thump thump thump” as before, and income the ogre, his wife “fee fie foe fum,”
“I smell the blood of an Englishman” cried out the ogre, “I smell him, wife, I smell
him,” “Do you, my dearie,” says the ogre’s wife, then if it’s that little rogue that stole
your gold and the hen that laid the golden eggs, he’s sure to have gotten to the oven,
and they both rushed to the oven, but Jack wasn’t there, luckily, and the ogre’s wife
said, “There you are again with your fee fie foe fum, where of course, it’s the letter
you caught last night that I’ve world for your breakfast, how forgetful I am,
and how careless you are not to tell the difference between a liven and a Dedham”.
So the ogre sat down to the breakfast and ate it, but now and then, he would
mutter, well I could have sawn, and he’d get up and search the larder,
and the cupboards and everything only; luckily, he didn’t think of the copper, after
breakfast was over, the ogre called out, “Wife, wife, bring me my golden harp,”
so she brought it and put it on the table before him; then he said, “Sing,”
and the golden harp sang most beautifully, and it went on singing to the earlier fell
asleep and commenced to snore like thunder, then Jack lifted the copper lid
very quietly and got down like a mouse and crept on hands and knees till he got
to the table, but he got up and caught hold of the golden harp and dashed with it
towards the door, but the harp called out quite loud, “Master, master,” and the ogre
woke up just in time to see Jack running off with his harp.
Jack ran as fast as he could, and the ogre came rushing after and would soon have
caught him, only Jack had a start and dodged him a bit and knew where he was
going, when he got to the Beanstalk, the egg was not more than 20 yards away
when suddenly he saw Jack disappear and when he got up to the end of the road
he saw Jack underneath, climbing down for life.
Well, the OVA didn’t like trusting himself to such a ladder, and he stood and waited.
so Jack got another start, but just then, the harp cried out, “Master, master,”
and the ogre swung himself down to the Beanstalk, which shook with his weight.
Down climbs Jack, and after he climbed the ogre; by this time, Jack
had climbed down and climbed down and climbed down till he was very
nearly home, so he called out, “Mother, mother, bring me an ax, bring me an ax.”
and his mother came rushing out with the ax in her hand, but when she came
to the Beanstalk, she stood Stockstill with fright, for there she saw the ogre just
coming down below the clouds, but Jack jumped down and got hold of the ax
and gave a chop at the Beanstalk, which cut it half into the ogre felt the Beanstalk
shake and quiver, so he stopped to see what was the matter; then jack gave another
chop with the ax, and the Beanstalk was cut in two and began to topple over.
The ogre fell and broke his crown, and the Beanstalk came toppling after.
Then Jack showed his mother his golden harp, and what was showing that,
and selling the golden eggs; Jack and his mother became very rich, and he married
a great princess and they lived happily ever after.
The End