Volume: CBÉ 0221
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“There was a king wan time and he had a beautiful daughter.”
(continued from previous page)says Jack "you spoke too late I killed the ram just before I came here". Jack used to play any amount of tricks of that kind, and he always came out on top himself. He got sick at last through all his tricks and then the two brothers got very jealous of him. So they planned together that they would kill him. They knew the room where he slept and didn't they decide that they would go this night and stick him with a long sword through the body. Begor wasn't Jack listening to them and didn't he go home and and fixed up a false man in the bed, and then he got under it and when the two brothers came along with their long sword and drove it through the false man. Jack let a roar and a bawl and the two step-brothers outside began to laugh and to sing. But they soon hooked it, for they(continues on next page)