Page 68 - Jack e il fagiolo magico

stones, he pursued his journey to the Giant's
mansion.
He reached it late in the evening, the woman was at
the door as usual; Jack accosted her, at the same time
telling her a pitiful tale, and requested she would give
him some victuals and drink, and a night's lodging.
She told him what he knew before very well,
concerning her husband, and also that she one night
admitted a poor, hungry, distressed boy, who was half
dead with travelling; that he stole one of the Giant's
treasures, and, ever since that, her husband had been
worse than before, and used her very cruelly, and
continually upbraiding her with being the cause of his
loss.
Jack was at no loss to discover that he was attending
to the account of a story in which he was the
principal actor: he did his best to persuade the good
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