"Hew away!" said he to his axe; and away it hewed, making the chips
fly again, so that it wasn't long before down came the oak.
When that was done, Jack pulled out his spade, and fitted it to its
handle.
"Dig away!" said he to the spade; and so the spade began to dig and
delve till the earth and rock flew out in splinters, and so he had the
well soon dug out, you may think.
And when he had got it as big and deep as he chose, Jack took out his
walnut and laid it in one corner of the well, and pulled the plug of
moss out.
"Trickle and run," said Jack, and so the nut trickled and ran, till
the water gushed out of the hole in a stream, and in a short time the
well was brimful.
Then Jack had felled the oak which shaded the King's palace, and dug
a well in the palace-yard, and so he got the Princess and half the
kingdom, as the King had said; but it was lucky for Peter and Paul
that they had lost their ears, else they had heard each hour and day
how every one said, "Well, after all, Jack wasn't so much out of his
mind when he took to wondering."
THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE
BY GEORGE WEBBE DASENT
Once on a time there was a man so surly and cross he never thought
his wife did anything right in the house.
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