Alas ! wherefore take me home with you again , ' cried the young woman , ` since the witch is sure to eat me up ? ' ` She will not eat you up , ' answered her husband ; and they started for home with the child . But when the witch wife saw them she ran away with her daughter , and if she has not stopped she is running still , though at a great age . And the Prince , and his wife , and the baby lived happy ever afterwards . -LRB- 9 -RRB- -LRB- 9 -RRB- From the Russo-Karelian . JACK AND THE BEANSTALK JACK SELLS THE COW ONCE upon a time there was a poor widow who lived in a little cottage with her only son Jack . Jack was a giddy , thoughtless boy , but very kind-hearted and affectionate . There had been a hard winter , and after it the poor woman had suffered from fever and ague . Jack did no work as yet , and by degrees they grew dreadfully poor . The widow saw that there was no means of keeping Jack and herself from starvation but by selling her cow ; so one morning she said to her son , ' I am too weak to go myself , Jack , so you must take the cow to market for me , and sell her . ' Jack liked going to market to sell the cow very much ; but as he was on the way , he met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand . Jack stopped to look at them , and the butcher told the boy that they were of great value , and persuaded the silly lad to sell the cow for these beans . When he brought them home to his mother instead of the money she expected for her nice cow , she was very vexed and shed many tears , scolding Jack for his folly . He was very sorry , and mother and son went to bed very sadly that night ; their last hope seemed gone . At daybreak Jack rose and went out into the garden . ` At least , ' he thought , ' I will sow the wonderful beans . Mother says that they are just common scarlet-runners , and nothing else ; but I may as well sow them . ' So he took a piece of stick , and made some holes in the ground , and put in the beans . That day they had very little dinner , and went sadly to bed , knowing that for the next day there would be none and Jack , unable to sleep from grief and vexation , got up at day-dawn and went out into the garden .
What was his amazement to find that the beans had grown up in the XXXXX , and climbed up and up till they covered the high cliff that sheltered the cottage , and disappeared above it !
BEANSTALK JACK Mother Prince Russo-Karelian day morning night scarlet-runners starvation