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”.