Kitabı oku: «English Fairy Tales. A1», sayfa 9

Well the big tall woman is thatcurious that she takes him in and gives him something to eat. But he begins eating it slowly when thump! thump! thump! they hear the ogre’s footstep, and his wife hides Jack away in the oven.

All happens as before. In comes theogre as before, says: “Fee-fi-fo-fum,” and has three cows for breakfast. Then he says: “Wife, bring me the hen that lays the golden eggs.” So she brings it, and the ogre says: “Lay,” and it lays an egg all of gold. And then the ogre falls asleep and the house shakes.

Then Jack creeps out of the oven very quietly and catches the golden hen, and is off before you say “Jack Robinson.” But this time the hen wakes theogre, and just as Jack gets out of the house he hears him calling: “Wife, wife, what do you do with my golden hen?”

And the wife says: “Why, my dear?”

But that is all Jack hears, for he runs off to thebeanstalk and climbs down very fast. And when he gets home he shows his mother the wonderful hen and says “Lay,” to it; and it lays a golden egg every time he says “Lay.”