"
"Done!" cried Jack, who was so delighted with the bargain that he ran
all the way home to tell his mother how lucky he had been.
But oh! how disappointed the poor widow was.
"Off to bed with you!" she cried; and she was so angry that she threw
the beans out of the window into the garden. So poor Jack went to bed
without any supper, and cried himself to sleep.
When he woke up the next morning, the room was almost dark; and Jack
jumped out of bed and ran to the window to see what was the matter.
The sun was shining brightly outside, but from the ground right up
beside his window there was growing a great beanstalk, which stretched
up and up as far as he could see, into the sky.
"I'll just see where it leads to," thought Jack, and with that he
stepped out of the window on to the beanstalk, and began to climb
upwards. He climbed up and up, till after a time his mother's cottage
looked a mere speck below, but at last the stalk ended, and he found
himself in a new and beautiful country. A little way off there was a
great castle, with a broad road leading straight up to the front gate.
But what most surprised Jack was to find a beautiful maiden suddenly
standing beside him.
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