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Dame Goody was a nurse that looked after 2 sick people, and minded babies. One night she woke up at midnight, and when she went downstairs, she saw a strange squinnyeyed 3 , little ugly old fellow, who asked her to come to his wife who was too ill to mind her baby. Dame Goody didn’t like the look of the old fellow, but business is business; so she popped on 4 her things, and went down to him. And when she got down to him, he whisked her up on to a large coalblack 5 horse with fiery eyes, that

‘You’re no good to me, then, and had best be off home.’

Not long after, Jack’s father told him he must come with him and build the finest castle that ever was seen.

‘Why, how’s this you’ve come alone

and she stared out of her great eyes as though she’d seen a

again 81 . And he had half a mind not to go back at all

Up sprang the cow and lowed dismally

and he asked his master for it, and brought it to her