Fairy Tales for Young Readers by E. Nesbit

Author:E. Nesbit
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2015-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

“Bring me my money-bags!”

Jack couldn’t help lifting up the copper lid a little bit when he heard the chink of the coins, and when he saw the giant counting out the great heap of gold and silver he longed to have it for his own, for he knew that it ought by rights to belong to him or his mother.

Presently the giant fell asleep, and Jack looked all round to see if the wife was about before he dared to get out of the copper. And he heard her walking about upstairs, so he jumped out, seized on the bags, and again made off for the beanstalk.

He reached home as his mother was clearing away the dinner-plates; but I won’t describe the scene. Of course they were now rich, and Jack wished to live in a large house, but his mother said she couldn’t leave the “bits of things,” and when he came to think it over Jack felt that he couldn’t bear to leave the beanstalk.

Another day came when Jack felt he must make another journey to the giant’s land, disguised in a new smock-frock and gaiters, and again the same thing happened, except that it was harder than ever to persuade the giant’s wife to take him in. She did at last, however, after explaining that two boys had served her badly, and that if he turned out bad too, then the giant would most likely kill her.

No sooner was Jack inside the house than the giant was heard coming. The woman showed Jack an empty barrel, and he crept under it.

Then the giant came in, and he rolled his eyes, twisted his great head about, and swore that he smelt fresh meat. His wife told him he was wrong, but this time he didn’t believe her, and he looked in the copper and in the oven and in the bread-crock, and under the sink; but he never thought of the empty barrel—partly, I daresay, because he thought it was full of something that it wasn’t full of.

At last he gave up the search and sat down to his dinner, and when he had finished he stretched himself until Jack thought some of his buttons would burst, and called:

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