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Well, the ogre had his breakfast , and after that he goes to a big chest and takes out a couple of bags of gold , and down he sits and counts till at last his head began to nod and he began to snore till the whole house shook again

So off the ogre went, and Jack was just going to jump out of the oven and run away when the woman told him not. ‘Wait till he’s asleep,’ says she; ‘he always has a doze after breakfast.’

Well, the ogre had his breakfast, and after that he goes to a big chest and takes out a couple of bags of gold, and down he sits and counts till at last his head began to nod and he began to snore till the whole house shook again.

Then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven , and as he was passing the ogre he took one of the bags of gold under his arm , and off he pelters till he came to the beanstalk , and then he threw down the bag of gold , which, of course, fell into his mother’s garden , and then he climbed down and climbed down till at last he got home and told his mother and showed her the gold and said : ‘Well, mother , wasn’t I right about the beans ? They are really magical, you see .’

Then Jack crept out on tiptoe from his oven, and as he was passing the ogre he took one of the bags of gold under his arm, and off he pelters till he came to the beanstalk, and then he threw down the bag of gold, which, of course, fell into his mother’s garden, and then he climbed down and climbed down till at last he got home and told his mother and showed her the gold and said: ‘Well, mother, wasn’t I right about the beans? They are really magical, you see.’

So they lived on the bag of gold for some time , but at last they came to the end of it , and Jack made up his mind to try his luck once more at the top of the beanstalk . So one fine morning he rose up early , and got on to the beanstalk , and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed till at last he came out on to the road again and up to the great tall house he had been to before . There, sure enough , was the great tall woman a-standing on the doorstep