Reading Notes The Ass the Table and the Stick Part B

There once was a lad named Jack who hated his father. He decided that he would run away to find fortune elsewhere.

He ran and ran until he came upon a woman who said if he would work for her for a year she would grant him riches beyond belief. Jack agreed and worked for the woman for a year. After the year was over the woman came to Jack and said, "Come here to receive payment." She then presented Jack an ass, this ass was a special ass. For when Jack pulled on this ass's ear money fell from his mouth.

Jack then took the ass on his journey home when he stopped at an Inn. He asked the innkeeper for a room and he refused as Jack had no money. Jack then took the ass around the back and pulled on its ear to get money, the innkeeper saw this and in the night he switched Jack's ass with another identical one.

Jack then went home and presented the ass to his father. He asked if he could marry the poor girl next door. His father then asked if he could provide for her. Jack was excited to show his ass off to his father and when he went to pull the ear no coins fell out of its mouth. His father then beat jack and sent him out.

Jack then went out on a journey and he found a man who offered to pay Jack for a year's worth of work. After the year of work was finished the man presented jack with a table that would always be full of food. Jack started his journey home when he stopped at a house with no food. Jack offered the house a buffet and when he went to bed that night the homeowner stole the table and replaced it with an identical one.

Jack then went home and asked his father if he could marry the girl next door, then his father replied with "Can you provide for her?" Jack was excited to show his father his table but when he presented it no food appeared. His father then beat him out of the house.

Jack then ran and found a man who offered him a club that would kill anyone he struck it with. So jack then went to the innkeeper, killed him and took his ass. He then went to the home, killed the man who took his table. He journeyed back to his original home. He found his father dead so he married the girl next door and he provided everything they would ever need.

Bibliography: This story is part of the English Fairy Tales (1) unit. Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).

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