Page 8 - Jack e il fagiolo magico

I n the days of King Alfred, there

lived a poor woman whose cottage
was situated in a remote country
village, a great many miles from
London.
She had been a widow some years,
_ child named Jack, whom she
and had an only
indulged to a fault; the consequence of her blind
partiality was, that Jack did not pay the least
attention to any thing she said, but was indolent,
careless, and extravagant. His follies were not owing
to a bad disposition, but that his mother had never
checked him. By degrees, she disposed of all she
possessed—scarcely any thing ____
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