Beanstalk Planting

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and his mother lived together and they had planted some beans.  And it seemed that one bean strayed away from the rest and grew up right along side of the house.  Their house was right below a hill, and Jack had always wondered what was on top of the hill.  So one day Jack climbed a beanstalk to get up to the top of the hill.  So, when he had got to the top, he saw a palace and he went to this place to see who lived there.  So, when he had got there, he found it was a giant's castle, but the giant wasn't at home.  But his wife was.  Jack was tired and hungry.  So he asked the lady to take him in and give him something to eat.  So she did so.  But she told him not to let her husband catch him there.  So, while Jack was eating, the giant came to the door.  She told Jack to hide and Jack hid in the chest behind the door.  So the giant came in.  He said:

Fe, fi, fo, fum, 

I smell the blood of an Englishman.

Be he alive or be he dead, 
Fe, fi, fo, fum!

But his wife told him that he didn't, that it was only some mutton that she was cooking.  So the giant sat down to eat his supper; and after he had finished eating, he called to his wife, and told her to bring him the wonder-box, which he took from Jack's father before Jack's father died.  So, while the giant was sitting there looking in the box, he fell asleep.  And Jack slipped out of the chest behind the door and took the wonderbox home to his mother. 

So it wasn't very long till Jack made up his mind to make another trip back to the castle of the giant. So, when Jack went back this time, he tried to put on like another poor little boy that was half starved. So he begged entrance at the door of the castle from the wife. And she didn't want to have him in, and she told him about the boy that had took the wonder-box from her husband. So he begged so hard that she left him in, and she gave him some bread and milk to eat. And again, while Jack was eating, the giant came.

And as he came in the door, he said:

Fe, fi, fo, fum, 

I smell the blood of an Englishmune.

Be he alive or be he dead, 

Fe, fi, fo, fum!

And Jack jumped in the salt-cellar.

His wife said, "No, there hasn't been any one here today." She says, "I'm only roastin' some pork for your supper."

So, after he ate his supper, the giant sent for his golden hen that lay the golden egg. So his wife went and brought it for him. And while the giant was playing with the egg that the hen had laid, he fell fast asleep. And Jack carried off the hen and the egg down the beanstalk to where his mother lived.

But Jack still thought that he wanted to visit the castle again. So this time, when he went up the beanstalk to the giant's castle, he was in the appearance of a newsboy selling papers. So, while the wife went to get the money to buy a paper, the giant appeared, and Jack hid in the closet.

And the giant repeated again:

Fe, fi, fo, fum, 

I smell the blood of an Englishmune.

Be he alive or be he dead, 

Fe, fi, fo, fum!

So the wife said, "No, there hasn't been any one here today." 

And after the giant had ate his supper, he called for his harp, the only thing that he had left, and this was a magic harp. So it commenced to play, and it played so sweetly that the giant fell fast asleep and commenced to snore. And as the harp stopped playing, Jack came out of the closet, took the harp, and started to the door. But the harp began to play, and it woke the giant up. And the giant followed Jack out of the door, and Jack run as fast as he could down the beanstalk, and the giant started to follow. But as the giant reached the top, Jack cut down the beanstalk with an axe; and as the giant stepped on, he fell down and died. 

And Jack and his mother always lived happy afterward with the property of the father which the giant had stolen and Jack had restored again.