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Every one was. admiring the beautiful
dashing fellow that was riding to the
battle this day, and word came to the
King, and the King came to. speak to him
and welcomed him heartily.
He said, “Your brother came with us
the last day we went in the battle. Your
brother is a very handsome, fine looking
fellow. What side are you going to light
on?”
Says Jack, “I will strike no stroke on any
side but yours this day.”
The King thanked him very heartily,
and into the battle they went with Jack
at their head, and Jack stroke east and
west ,and in all directions, and the wind
of the strokes blew off forests in the oth-
er, end of the world, and very soon the
King of the East with all his army that
were still alive ran off from, the1 battle.. .
Then the King thanked Jack.and invited
him to his castle and he would give .a
feast in his honor,, but Jack said he could
not do that, for they did. not know at
home where he was and they would be
uneasy about him until he reached back
home again.
“Then,” said the King, “the least I can
do for you is to give you a, present. Here
is a purse, and no'matter how often and
how much you pay out of it, it will never
be empty.”
Jack took it and thanked; him and rode
away. In the wood he left the mare and
the bear and was again changed into
Hookedy-Crookedy and went home to his
garden. The Yellow Rose came out and
told him about the great victory a brave
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THE LADIES’ DRESSING ROOM
In the sumptuous Pullmans on The Denver
is more than twice the size of the dressing
rooms in most sleepers.
It has a table, chairs, two wash basing
and a full length pier glass. In this roomy
apartment three ladies may dress at one
time.
No inside lock, either. It is impossible
for one or two women to enter the dressing
room and by locking the door keep others
out.
After the toilet is made don’t go to yous
cold lunch-box; it’s not good for you. Pass
through the vestibule into the Cafe Car,
Drink your Apollinaris and order a juicjl
beeksteak. You will feel better. All meals
a la carte, so you can get what you pleasa
and really pay very little. The coffee is
always good.
You don’t have to apologize for riding on
THE DENVER.
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Hull. T. P. A.; W. F. Sterley, A. G. P. A.,
Fort Worth, Texas.
THE EMERSON PIANO
Is an Instrument which produces rich
sweet sounds. The exquisite tone and
beautiful touch makes it a favorite With
the musicians. The great popularity of the
Emerson pianos among the teachers is a
convincing proof of their superior merits.
W? have been selling the Emerson pianos
In Texas for nearly 3D years, ,
THOS. GOGGAN & BRO.,
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spray pumps, hay ties, etc., etc. Send
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Phone 703. _ , j
'TOJpY.
Copyright, 1900, by Seumais MacManus.
Once on. a time there was a King and
Queen in Ireland and they had one son
■ named Jack, and when Jack grew up to
be a man big, he rose up one day and said
to his father and mother he would go off
■ and push his fortune.
All his father, and mother, could say to
Jack, they'.could not keep' him from going.
iHe was bound in going,so with a staff in
his hand and his 'father’s and mother’s,
blessing on his head, off Jack started, and
he traveled away, far further than I could
tell you and twice as far as you can tell
me.
At length, one day coming up to a big
Wood, he met a gray-haired old man.
old man asked him, “Jack, where are you
going?”
He says, “I am going to push my for-
tune.”
“Well,” says the old man, says he, “if
’tis looking for service you are, there is a
Giant who lives at the other side of the
wood that they call the Giant of the Hun-
dred Hills, and they believe he wants a
fine, strong, able, clever young fellow like
you.”
“Very well,
to- him.”
Push on Jack did away to the wood, un-
til he got to .the other side, and then he
saw a. big castle, and going up he knocked;
at the door and a Mg .Giant' came out.
“Welcome1,' Jack,” s.ays he, “the King of
Ireland’s son! Where are you going to and
w.hat do you want?” .
“I came,’’,-says Jack, “to push my for-
tune, and am looking for honest service. ,1
have been told,” he said to the Giant of
tho Hundred Hills, “that you. wanted a
. clean, clever boy like me.”
“Well,” says the Giant, “I am the Giant
Of the Hundred Hills and do want such a
fellow like you. I have to go away every
day,” he said, “to- battle with another
Giant to the other end of the world, and
Then I am away I want somebody to look
JJter my house and place. If you would be
®>f good faithful service to- me and do ev-
erything I tell you, I will give you a bag
of gold at the end of the time.”
Jack promised that he would do all that.
The Giant then gave him a hearty supper
and a good bed, and well he slept that
night. In the morning the Giant had him
called up before the first lark wa.s in the
sky.
“Jack, my brave boy,” says he, “I have
got to be off to the other end of the world
today to fight the Giant of the Four Winds
and it is time you are up and looking.after
your business. You have got to put this
house in order, and look after everything
in it until I come back tonight. To every
room in the house and to every place in
the house, you can go, except the stable.
My stable, door is closed, and on the peril
■of your life don’t open it or go into- it;
keep that, in mind.”
Jack said’ he certainly would, then the
Giant visited the stable and started off,
and as soon as he was gone, Jack went
fixing and arranging it and setting every-
thing ip order. And a wonderful house
it was to Jack, so big and so great; and
after that he went to the castle yard and
Into every house and building there, ex-
cept the stable, and when he had visited
all the rest of them, he stood before the
stable door and looked at it a long time.
“And I wonder,” says Jack, says he, “I
wonder what can be in there, and what is
the reason he- wants me in the peril of
my life not to go into it. I would like to
go and peep in, and there certainly would
be no harm.”
Every door in and about the Giant’s
place was opened by a little ring turned
in the pivot in the middle of the door.
Forwarding the stable- door Jack then
stops, turns the little ring and the- door
then flew open, and inside, what does Jack
see but a mare- and a. bear standing by
the manger, and neither of them, eating.
There was hay before the bear and meat
before the mare.
“Well,” says Jack, “it is no wonder,
poor creatures, you are not eatin’. That
was a nice blunder of the Giant,” and he
stepped and changed their food, putting
hay before the mare and meat before the
bear, and at once both of them, fell to it,
and Jack went out and closed the stable
door, but as he did his finger stuck in the
ring and ho pulled and struggled to get it
away, but he could not get it.
That was a fix for poor Jack. “And by
this and by that,” says he, “the Giant will
be back and find me stuck here;” so he
hoops out his knife and cuts off his finger
and left it there.
And when the Giant came home that
night, says he to Jack: “Well, Jack, what
sort of a day have you had this day, and
how did you get along?”
“I had a fine day,” says Jack, “and got
along very fine indeed.”
“Jack,” says- he, “show me your two
hands,” and when Jack held out his two
hands there the Giant saw one of his fin-
gers gone. He got black in the face with
rage when he saw this, and he said:
“Jack, did I not warn you on the peril of -
your life not to go in that stable?”
Poor Jack pleaded all he could, and said
he did not mean to, but the curiosity got
the best of him, and he thought he- would
open the door and peep in it.
Says the Giant: “No man before ever
opened that stable door and lived to tell
it, and you, too, would be a dead man this
minute only for one thing. Your father’s
father did my father a great service once.
I am. the man who never forgets a good
thing, and for that service,” says he, “I
give you your life and pardon you this
THE GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
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I that night and the middle of the next day.
“Jack,” says she, “look behind you and
see what you can -see.”
Jack looked behind him, and “O,” says
he, “I see the Giant of the Hundred Hills
coming tearing after us like a harvest
hurricane.”
“Do you see anything strange about him,
Jack?” says the mare.,
“Yes-,” says Jack, says, he, “there is as
much bushes on the top of his head and as
much fowl stuck about his feet and legs as
will keep him in flesh for years to come.
We are done for this time entirely,” says
poor Jack.
“Not yet,” says the mare; “there is an-
other chance. Look into- my right ear and
see what you will see.”
tn the mare’s right ear Jack looked and
found a drop-of water.
“Thfo-w it over your left shoulder, Jack,”
says the mare-, “and see what will hap-
pen.”
Over
I time, but if you ever do the like again,
you won’t live.”
Jack, he promised that surely and surely
he would never do the like again. His
supper he brought that night, and to bed,
and on early morning again the Giant had
him up, and, “Jack,” says he, “I must be
off .to the other end of the world again and
fight the- Giant of the Four Winds. Do
you now your duty to look after this
house- and place and set everything in
order about. itv and go everywhere you
like, finly don’ t open the stable door, or go
into it on the peril of your life.”
“I will mind all that,” says he.
Then that morning again the Giant vis-
ited the stable before he went away, and
after the Giant had gone, and to his work
went Jack, wandering through the house,,
cleaning and setting everything in order,
about it, and out into- the yard he went
and fixed and arranged everything out
there, except the stable. He stood before
the stable door.a good while this day, and
says he- to himself, “I wonder how the
mare and the. bear are doing, and what
the Giant done when he- went in to see
them. I would do- a. great deal to know,”
says he. “I will take a peep in.”
Into- the- ring of the door he put his
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“I am a handsome fellow, rich prince,”
says Jack,” and I will give you myself
and all I possess if you will only say you
will accept me.”
She was highly insulted, and she showed
him that very quickly. She said: “I won’t
sit here and hear the man I love abused,”
and she got up to leave.
“Well,” says Jack, “I admire your spirit,
but before you go,” says he, “let me make
you a little present,” and he handed her a
tablecloth. “There,” says he, “if you
marry Hookedy-Crookedy, as long as you
have this tablecloth you will never want
eating and drinking of the best.”
The other two sisters grabbed to get the
tablecloth from her, but Jack put out his
hands and pushed them back.
At dinner time the next day Jack came
.in a dress in which he had gone into the
second battle, and with the mare he
cleared the walls as the day before.
The King was enraged at the gatekeep-
ers and began to scold them, but Jack
laughed at them and said a trifle like that
was never to him. and his mare harmful.
After dinner was over the King asked
what he thought of his daughters and
their husbands.
Jack said they were very good and asked
him if he had any more in his family.
The King said, “I have no more except
one daughter, who won’t do as I wish, and
who has fallen in love with an ugly
crooked wee fellow in my garden, and I
ordered her never to come in my sight
again.”
-But Jack said he would very much like
to see her.
The King said that on Jack’s account he
would break his vow and let her come in.
So the Yellow Rose was brought in and
Jack fell to chat with her. He did all he
could to make her fall in love with him,
and then told her of all his good wealth
and good possessions and offered himself
. to her, and said if she only would marry
him she would live with ease and luxury
and happiness all the days of her life,
things she would never know with Hook-
edy-Croo-kedy.
But Yellow Rose got very angry, and
said, “I won’t sit here and listen to- such
things,” and she got up to leave the room.
“Well,” says Jack, “I admire your spirit,
and before you go let me make you a
little present.” So he handed her a purse.
“Here,” says he, “is a purse, and all the
days yourself and Hookedy-Crookedy live
you will never want for money, for that
purse will never be empty.”
Her sisters made a grab to snatch it
from her, but Jack shoved them back and
went out, and Jack rode away with the
mare after dinner and left her in the wood.
When he came back to his garden he
always came in the Hookedy-Crookedy
.ship and always pretended to had been
away on a message for the King.
The third day he went to the wood again.
He dressed in the suit in which he had
gone to the first battle, and when he came
back he went to the castle and cleared
the walls, and when the King scolded the
gatekeepers Jack, told him never to mind,
as that was a small trifle to him and his
mare.
A very grand dinner indeed Jack had
this day, and when they cha-tted after din-
ner the King asked him how he liked his
daughters and their husbands.
He said he liked them very well, and
asked him if he had any more in his fam- -
fly.
The King said no, except one foolisn
daughter, who wouldn’t do as he wished,
and who fell in love with an ugly,
crooked, wee fellow in his garden, and
she was never to come within his sight
again.
Says Jack, “I would like to see that
girl.”
The King said he could not refuse Jack
any request he made, so he went for the
Yellow Rose. When .she came in Jack fell
into chat with her and did his very, yery
best to make her fall in love with him, but
it was of no use. He told her of all his
wealth, and all his good possessions, and
said if she would marry him she would
own all that, and all the days she would
live she would be the happiest woman of
the wide world, but if she would marry
Hookedy-Crookedy, he said, she would
never be out of want and hardships, be-
sides having an ugly husband.
If the Yellow Rose- was in a rage the two
days before, she was in a far greater rage
now. She said she wouldn’t sit there to
listen to that. She told Jaiek that Hook-
edyJCrookedy was in her eyes a far more
handsome and beautiful man than he and
than any of the Kings’ sons .she had ever
seen. She said to Jack if he was 10 times
as handsome and 100 times as wealthy, she
wouldn't give Hookedy-Croo-kedy’s little
finger for himselft or for all hig wealth
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A" I think Ripans Tabules about the best thr^g^
there is,” said the Colonel; “I guess they are THE1
best!
I horse you get, and they will do- something |
to get rid of you. When you come to the
crossroads on^.’of them will propose to go
i in and have a drink, and then when you
- are chatting over your drink they will pro-
pose that the three of you separate and
every one of you take a road by yourself
to go to the Well of the World’s End, and
all three wilWnieet at that cross-roads
again, and whoever is back first with the
bottle of water is to be the- greatest hero
of them all. You agree to this. When
they start off their roads they will not go
many miles till they fill their bottles from
Sparwells by the roadside and hurry back
to j;he meeting place, and then to contin-
ue on home to the King of Scotland and
give him these bottles as bottles of loca
-from the Wells of the World’s End. ■
“But you will be before- them, and after
you have set on - your road put on your
wishing cap. when you have gone around i
the first bend and-wish for two bottles of
loca from the Wellfe of the World’s- End,
and at once you will have them,” and
then the mare directed Jack fully what he
was to do after. Jack thanked the mare
and bade good-bye to- the mare and went
away.
The next day when the King’s two
in-law set out on.’their grand steeds to
to the Wells of the World’s End, they had
not gone far when Jack in a ragged old
suit and sitting on a strong saddle on an
old white skinny--’ horse- joined them and
told them he too was going with them
for a bottle of loca. Right heartily
ashamed of Jack, they would do anything
to get rid of him.
By and by when they came to where the
road parted in three' they proposed to have
a drink, and as they set off to -drink they
proposed that each fake a road for hlm.-
self, and whoever was to be back first
with a bottle of -loca would be the great-
est hero. They 'agreed, and’each chose:
his own road and set out.
When Jack went, around the first bend he
put on his wishing cap and wished for two
bottles of loca from: the Wells of the
World’s End, and no- sooner he wished
than he had them,., and back again he came
and was not very long, and w-hen the
other two came.riding up surprised they
were to find Jack.there before them. They,
said that Jack .had not been to the Wells
of the World’s End and it was no loca he
had with him,’, but some water from the
. . roadside.
“'No,” said Jack,’-"take care that is not
your own story.’. ' -' ■ ■’
“All right,” .said'^ck, “just test them;
when the servaflt5§(jtries in with the drinks
you cut off his^Eead and hen cure him
with your bottle.’’.^
But both of tiieinj"refused to do this, for
they knew theirJbQ,t'tles, could not cure-any-
thing, but they defle^Jack to do it.
“Very soon I wj^-dq.. that,” said Jack.
So when the sqzw^-pt came in with his
drinks, Jack dre^yohig.,sword and dropped
his head off hiisi,bandfei-n a minute’s time
with two drops ft^!m>..0-ne of his bottles jf
loca. he had the h^dson again.
Says they to HoOkfedy^-Crookedy, “What
will you take for ybftfr two bottles?”
Says Jack, “I feke-’ the golden balls
o-f your marriagJPfll^ge, and also to allow
me to write so irilthihg oh your backs-.”
And they agr^I t‘J this. They handed
over to Jack the two- golden balls that.
■ werq..their.?marriages tokens, and" lying;
down on the floor, they let Jack write on
their bare backs, and what Jack wrote on
each o-f them was, ‘‘This is an unlawful
married man.” Then he gay.e them the.
bottles of loca. and-they brought them ,t■>
the King, and Jack returned to- his garden
again.
He did not tell the Yellow Rose where he
had been and what he was doing, only said,
he was away, on a message for her father.
As soon as the King got the bottles of loca
he gave orders that his army should move
to battle the next day. ’
The next morning early Jack was over
to’ the wood to consult the mare. He told
her what was going to happen that day.
Says- the mare, “Look in. my left ear, Jack,
and see what you will see.”
Jack looked into- the mare’.s left ear and
took out of it a grand soldier’s dress. The
mare told him to put it on and get upon
her back. On he put. the dress and at o-nce
Hookedy-Crookedy was transformed into
a very handsome, dashing young fellow,
and went Jack and the mare and the bear,
the three of them away to the war. Every
one met them and they admired Jack very
much, he was such a handsome, clever
looking fellow, and word wa.s passed on to
the King about the great Prince who was
riding to the war, himself, the mare and
the bear. The King came to see him, too,
and they asked him on which side he was
going to fight.
“I will strike no stroke this day,” says
Jack, “except on the side of the King of
Scotland.”
The King thanked him very heartily and
said he was sure they would win. So- they
went into the battle with Jack at their
head, and Jack stroke east and west, and
in all directions, and every blow o-f his
sword he stroke, the wind of his sword
tossed houses on the other side of the
world, and in a very short time the King
of the East ran off with all his army that
were, -still alive. Then the King o-f Scot-
land awaited Jack to- come home with him,
as he was going to give a great feast in
his .honor, but Jack said no, he could not
“They don’t kndw at-home,” said Jack,
“where I am at a-^’yafld neither they did,
“so he must be off.to' them as quickly as
possible.”
“Then,” says the l^i^', “the least I can
do is to give you a pkesent. Here is a
table cloth,” saysih.e, “and every time you
spread it out you have it covered with
vc\S-’’ Nt
all eating and drirrki.pg^pf all sorts.”
Jack took it am<^’'tha.hked him and rode
away. He left the maye and the bear in
their own wood '■and ^became Hookedy-
Crookedy again and ran back to his gar-
den. The Yellow Rose told Jack of the
brave soldier that had. won her father’s
battle that day. \'A
“Well, well,” salts' Jack, says he, “he
must have been a grand fellow entirely.
It is a pity I was not there, but I had to
go on a message for the King.”
“Poor Hookedy-Crookedy,” says she,
“what would you do if you were there
yourself?”
Jack went to the wood again that, morn-
ing and consulted with the mare. “Jack,”
said the mare, “look in the inside of my
left ear and see what you will see,” and
Jack took out of her left ear a soldier’s
suit, done off with silver, the grandest
ever seen, and at the mare’s- advice he put
the suit on and mounted on her back and
the three of them went off to the battle.
and beautiful soldier, brother to the fine.
fellow of the day before, had won. for her.
father.
“Well, well.” says Jack, says he, “that
was very wonderful entirely. I am sorry
I was not there, but I had to be away on
a message for your father.”
“But, my poor Hookedy-Crookedy,” ’
says she, “It was better so, for what could .
you do?”
Three days after that the- King of the
East took courage to come to battle again,
The morning of the battle Jack went to
the wood to consult the mare.
“Look into my left ear, Jack, and see
what you will see,” and from, the mare’s
left ear Jack drew out a most gorgeous
soldier’s suit, done off with gold braidings
and. ornaments of every sort. By the
mare’s advice- he put it on, and himself,
the mare and the bear went off to the
war.
The King soon heard of the wonderful
grand fellow that was riding to the war
today with the mare and the bear, and he
came to Jack and welcomed him and told
him how his two brothers had won the
last two victories for him. He asked Jack
on what side he was going to- fight.
“I will strike no stroke this day,” says
Jack, ’’only on the King of Scotland’s
side.”
The King thanked him heartily, and said
we. will surely win the victory, and then
into the battle they rode with. Jack at
their head, amd Jack stroke east and west,,
and in all directions, and the wind of the
strokes tumbled mountains- at the other
end of the world, and very soon the King
of the East with all his army that were
left alive took to their heels and never
stopped running until they went as far as
the world would let them.
Then the King .came to Jack and
thanked him- over and over again, and
said he would never be able to repay him.
He then invited him to come to his cas-
tle, and he would give a little feast in his
honor, but Jack said they didn’t know at
home where he- was and they would be
uneasy about him, and so could not go
with the King.
“But,” says he, “I and my brothers will
come to feast with you at any other
time.”
“What day will the three of you come?”’
said the King.
“Only one of us can leave home by the
day,” said Jack. “I will come to feast
with you tomorrow and my second broth-
er the day after and the third brother the
day after that.”
The King agreed to this and thanked
him. “And now,” said the King, “let me
give you a present,” and he gave him
a comb, and every time he combed his
hair with it he would comb out of it bush-
els of gold and silver, and it would trans-
form the ugliest man that ever was to
even the nicest and handsomest. Jack
took it and thanked the King and rode
away.
On this day, ak on the other days after
the battle, they cured the dead and the
wounded with the bottles of loca and all
were well again. When Jack went to the
wood again he left the mare and the bear
in it and became Hookedy-Crookedy
again, and went home and to his garden.
The Yellow Rose came to him and had
wonderful news for him this day over the
terrible grand fellow entirely. He had
won the battle for her father that day:
brother to the two brave fellows who had
won the battles on the other two days.
“Well,” says Jack, says he, “those must
be wonderful chaps. I wish I had been
there, but I had to be away on a message
for your father all day.”
“O, my poor Hookedy-Crookedy,” says
she, “it was better so, for what could you
do yourself.”
The next day when it was near dinner
time he went off to the wood to the mare
and the bear and got on him the suit he
wore the day before- the battle and mount-
ed the mare and rode for the castle, and
when he- came- there all the gates hap^.
pened to be closed, but he put the mare at
the walls, which are nine miles high.
The King scolded the gate keepers, but
Jack said a trifle like that didn’t harm
him nor his mare. After dinner the King
asked him what did he think of his two
daughters and husbands.
Jack said they were very good,
asked him if he had any more in his fam-
ily.
The King said they used to have anoth-
er daughter, the youngest, but she would
not consent to marry as he wished, and
he had banished her out of his sight.
Jack said he would like to see her.
The King said he would never let her
under company again, but he could not
refuse Jack; so the Yellow Rose was sent
for.
Jack fell a chatting with her and used
all his arts to win her, and of course in
this handsome Jack she did not recognize
ugly little Hookedy-Crookedy. He told
her he had heard that she had a very bad
taste to fall in love with an ugly crooked
wee fellow in her father’s garden.
his left shoulder Jack threw it, and
all at o-nce a lough sprung up between
them and the Giant that was 100 miles
every way and 100 miles deep- the other
place.
“Now,” says the mare, “he- can not reach
us until he. drinks his way through the
lough, and very likely he will drink until
he .bursts-, and then we will be rid of him
altogether.”
Jack thanked God, and on he went. It
was not long until he reached the borders
of Scotland, and coming in there he saw a
great wood.
“Now,” s-ays the mare and the bear,
“this Wood must be our hiding place.”
“And what about me,” says Jack.
“For you, Jack,” -says she, "you must
’bush on and look for employment.’ The
castle b-f the King of Scotland is near by,
and I think you will be likely to get em-
ployment there, but first I must change
you into an ugly little hookedy-eropkecly
fellow, because the King of Scotland has
three beautiful daughters, and he won’t
take into his service such a handsome
fellow like you, for fear his daughters
would fall in love with you.”
Then the mare put her nostrils to Jack’s
breast and blew his breath out of him,
and at last Jack was turned into an ugly
little ho-o-kedy-crookedy fellow. -
“Jack,” says the mare, “before you go,
look into my left ear and take what you
see there.”
Out of the mare’s left ear Jack took a,
little- cap.
“Jack,” say-s she, “that is a wishing cap,
and every time you put it on and wish to
have anything done it will be done.
Whenever you are in any trouble,” the
mare said, “come back to me and I will do
what I can for you, and now good-bye.”
So Jack said good-bye to the mare and to
the bear and set o-ff.
When he got out of the wood he soon saw
a castle and walked up to it, and went in
by the kitchen. A servant was employed
scouring knives. He told her he wanted
employment. She said the King of Scot-
land would employ no- man in his house, so
he may as well push on. But Jack insisted
that he would employ him, and at length
the girl consented to go and let the King
know.
When the girl went away Jack put on his
wishing cap and wished the knives and
forks scoured, and all. at once the stack of
knives and forks-that were .piled 10 feet
high was sc'oured as brightly as new pins;
and though the King of Scotland did not
want to employ him, when he found how
quickly Jack had scoured all the big stack
of knives and forks, he agreed to keep him.
But first he brought down his three daugh-
ters to see Jack, until he would find what
impression Jack made upon them. When
they came into the kitchen and saw the.
ugly little fellow every one of the three
fainted and had to be carried out.
“It is all right,” says the King, “we- will
surely keep you,” and Jack was employed
and sent out into- the garden to- work there.
Now at this time the King of the East
declared war bn the King of Scotland. The
King of the East had a mighty army en-
tirely, and he threatened to- fight the King
of Scotland off the face of the earth.
The King of Scotland was very much
troubled and he consulted with his Grand
Adviser what was best to be done, and his
Grand Adviser co-un se-lcd that-he should at
once give his three daughters in marriage
to the King’s three sons, an'd in that way
get big help for the war. The King said
this was a grand idea.
So he sent out messengers to- all parts of
the world to -say that his three beautiful
daughters were open for marriage. In a
very short time the son of the King o-f
Spain came and married the eldest daugh-
ter and the son of the King of France
came and married the second, and a whole
lot of princes caime looking for the young-
est, who was the most beautiful of the
three, and whose name was Yellow Rose,
but she would not take one o-f them, and
for this the King ordered her never to
dome into his sight, -nor into company
again.
Yellow Rose got very down-hearted and
used almost all her time- now in wandering
in thopgarden where Hookedy-Crookedy
was liking after the flowers, and she
used to co-me around again and again,
chattinggito Hookedy-Crookedy. And so it
wais not long until Hookedy-Crookedy saw
that the Yellow Rose was in love with
him, an^he got just as deeply in love with
her, for*she wa.s a beautiful and charming
girl. The next thing the Grand Adviser
counseled the Kirtig was that he should
send his to- new sons-in-law, the Prince of
Spain and the Prince of France, to the
Well of the World’s End for bottles of
loca* to take in the battle with them, that
they might cure wounded and dead men.
So the Kingfe.oi’dere-d his sons-in-law to go
to the Well of the World’s End and bring
him back two bottles o-f loca-.
The Yellow Rose told Hookedy-Crook-
edy all about this, and when he had
turned it over in his mind, he said to him-
self: “I will go and have a chat with the
mare and bear about this.”
So off to the woods he went and right
glad the mare and the bear were to see
him. He told them all that happened, and
then told them- how the King’s two sons-
in-law were to start to the Well of the
World’s End the next day, and asked the
mare’s advice about this.
“Well, Jack,” says the mare, “I want
you to go with them. Take an old hunt
horse in the King’s stable, an old bony,
skinny animal that is past all work, and
put an old, strong saddle on it, and dress
yourself in the most ragged dress you can
get, and join the two- men on the roads,
and say that you are going with them.
They will be heartily ashamed of you,
Jack, and the figure of youjs and the old
“I guess they
I was sitting the other evening smoking and drink-
ing a little whisky and water; there were four of us thera
and one complained of being very uncomfortable. When
he had told us about it I said to him, ‘ all that ails you 'll
indigestion,’and I gave him a Ripans Tabule from a little?
vial I had in my pocket. We. each of
since then I have learned that every one
bought the. TABULES and thinks them the greatest
things tu-LT^ are a going,”
.finger, and turned it and looked in and
there he saw the mare and the bear stand-;,
ing .like - the day before,, and. neither of
them eating. In Jack' steps,"'“and no won-
. der, poor creatures,”-says he, “you don’t
eat, and that is the way the Giant blun-
dered,” he says, after he saw the meat
before the mare and the hay before the
bear this time also. .. . ’
.Tack then changed ’the food, putting the
hay before the mare and the meat before
the bear, as it should be-, and very soon
both the mare and the bear were eating
heartily, and then Jack went out. He
closed the door and when he did his finger
stuck in the door, and pul) and struggle as
Jack did he could not get it out.
“Och, o-ch, och,” says Jack, says he, “I
am a dead man today surely.”
He hoops, o-u'.. Ms knife and cuts off his
finger and left it there, and ’twas there
v,hen the Giant came home that night.
“Well, Jack, my fine boy,” says he, “how
have you got cn today?”
“Oh, finely, finely,” says Tack, says he,
holding his hands behind his back all the
same.
“Show me your hands, Jack,” says the
Giant, “till I see if you wash them and
keep them clean always,” and when Jack
showed up h’s hands the Giant got black in
fine face with rage, ard says he, “didn't I
forgive your life yesterday for going into
that stable, and you promised never to do
it again, and here I find you there again.”
The Giant ranted and raged for a long
time, and then, says he, “Because your
father’s father did my father such a. good
turn, I suppose I will have to spare your
life this second time; but, Jack,” says he,
“if you should live to be a hundred years,
and spend them all in my service, and if
you should ever again open that door, and
put your foot into my stable, that day,”
says he, “you will be a dead man as sure
as there is a head on you. Mind that.”
Jack, he thanked the Giant very much
for sparing his life, and promised that he
never, never would again do that of dis-
obey him.
The next morning the Giant had Jack up
early, and told him he was going off this
day and fight the Giants of the other end
of the world, and gave Jack his directions
and warned him just like the other days;
then he went into stable before he went
away, and when he was gone, Jack went
through all the house, through the whole
yard, setting everything in order, and
when everything was done, he stood be-
fore the stable door.
“I wonder,” says Jack, “how fhe poor
mare and the bear are getting along, or
what the Giant of the Hundred Hills is do-
ing today. I should just very much like,”
says- he. “to take one wee, wee peep in,”
and opened the door.
Jack peeped in and there the mare and
the bear stood looking at each other
again, and neither of them taking a mor-
sel. And there was the meat before the
mare and the hay before the bear, just
like on the other days.
“Poor creatures,” says Jack, “it is no
wonder you are*, not eating, and hungry
you must be.” And forward he steps
and changes the food, putting it as it
should be. the hay before the- mare and
meat before the bear, and to it both of
them fell.
And when he did this, up speaks the
mare, and “Poor Jack,” says she, “I am
sorry for you. This night you will be
killed surely, and sorry for us, too, I am,
for we will be killed as well as- you.”
“O, O, O,” says Jack, says he, “that is
terrible. Is there nothing we can do?”
“Only one thing,” says- the mare.
“What is that?” says Jack.
“It’s this,” says the- mare; “put that
saddle and bridle on me and let’s- start off
and be away, far, far from this country,
until the Giant comes back.” And the
saddle and bridle Jack had on the mare,
and on her back he got to start off.
“O,” says the bear, speaking up, “both
of you are going away to leave me in
for all the trouble.”
“No,” says the mare, “we will not do
that.”
“Jack,” says she, “take the chains and
tie me to the bear.” \
Jack tied the mare to the bear with
chains that were hanging up, and then the
mare started. And then after the three of
them, the mare and the bear and Jack,
^-started, and on and on before them as fast
as they could gallop.
After a long time, says the mare: “Jack,
look behind you and see what you will
see.”
Jack looked behind him, and “O,” says
he, “I see the Giant of the Hundred Hills
coming like a raging storm. Very soon he
will be on us and we- will all three be mur-
dered.”
Says the mare, says she, “We will have
a chance yet. Look in my left ear and see
what you will see,” and In her left ear
Jack looked and saw a little chestnut.
“Throw it over your left shoulder,” says
the mare.
Jack threw it over his left shoulder, and
that minute there was a chestnut wood 10
miles. On and on they went that day and
and possessions, and then she got up to
leave the room.
“Well,” says Jack, says he, “I admiri
your spirit very much, and,” says he, “]
would like to make you a little present;
Here is a comb,” he said, “and it will comB
out of one’s hair a bushel of gold and a
bushel of silver every time they comb with
it, and, besides,” says he, “it will make
handsome the ugliest man that ever was.”
When the other sisters heard this they
rushed to snatch the comb from her, but
Jack threw them backwards so very rough-
ly that their husbands- sprang out. With
the back switch of his two hands Jack
knocked their husbands down senseless.
The King flew into a rage and said, “How
dare you do that to the two finest and
bravest men of this world?”
“Fine and brave, indeed,” said Jack.
“One and the other two are worthless
creatures, and not even your lawful sons-
in-law.”
“How dare you say that?” says the king.
“Strip their backs where they lie and see
for yourself.,” And there the King saw
written “An unlawful married man.”
“What is the meaning of this?” says the
King.- “They were- lawfully married to my
two daughters, and they have the golden
tokens of the marriage.”
Jack drew out from his pocket the two
golden balls and handed them to the King,
and said, “It is I who have the tokens,”
and handed them to the King.
The Yellow Rose had gone off to the gar-
den in the middle of all this. Jack mada
the King sit down and told him all his
sltory, and how he came by the golden
balls. He told him how he was Hookedy-
Crookedy, and that it reflected a great deal
of honor that she the King thought so
worthless would refuse to give up Hookedy-
Crookedy for the one she thought a
wealthy prince, and that she walked away
in a hurry. The King, you may be sure,
was highly delighted to grant his request.
A couple of drops of loca brought tho
King’s two sons to their senses again, and
at Jack’s- request they were ordered to go
and live elsewhere. Jack went off, left his
mare in the wood and came in the garden
as Hokedy-Crookedy. He told the Yellow
Rose he had been gathering bilberries.
“O,” says she, “I have something grand
for you. Let me comb your hair with this
comb.”
Hookedy-Crookedy put his'head in her
lap and she combed out a bushel of gold
and silver, and when he stood up again sho
saw Hookedy-Crookedy no more, but in-
stead the beautiful prince that had been
trying to win her in her father’s drawing
room for the last three days, and then and
there to her Jack told his whole story,
and it’s Yellow Rose is the delighted girl.
With little delay they were married. The
wedding lasted a year and a day, and there
were at it 500 fiddlers, 500 fluters and 1000
lifers, and the last day was better than
the first.
Shortly after the marriage Jack and hia
bride were out walking one day. A beau-
tiful young woman crossed the path. Jack
addressed her, but she gave him a very,
curt reply.
“Your manners are not so handsome as
your looks,” said Jack to her.
“And bad as they are, they are better
than your memory, Hookedy-Crookedy,”
says she.
“What do yau mean?” says Jack.
She led Jack aside and she told him. “I
am the mate who was so good to you. I
was condemned to that ship for a number
of years, and now my enchantment is
over. I had a brother who was enchant-
ed to a bear, and whose enchantment is
over now also. J had hopes,” she said,
“that some day you would be my husband,
but I see,” she said, “that you quickly for-
got all about me. No matter now,” she
said, “I couldn’t wish you a better and
handsomer wife than you have got. Go
home to your castle and be happy and live
and live prosperous. I will never see you,
and you will never see me again for a
while.”
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