Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Jack and the Beanstalk

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Starting point is 00:01:16 or admired the delicate features of Queen Nefertiti if you have you'll probably like the History of Egypt podcast every week we explore tales of this ancient culture The history of Egypt is available wherever you get your podcasting fix. Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt. And welcome to Sleep Cove with me, Christopher Fitton. Tonight I'm reading the classic tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, told by Joseph Jacobs,

Starting point is 00:02:00 who originally collected oral stories, told by everyday people into his book called English Very Tales in 1890. Jacob said he was told this story when he was a child and is the version most commonly reprinted today. So let's begin this classic. Jack and the Beanstalk There was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son. named Jack and a cow named Milky White. And all they had to live on was the milk the cow gave

Starting point is 00:02:46 every morning, which they carried to the market and sold. But one morning, Milky White gave no milk, and they didn't know what to do. What shall we do? What shall we do? said the widow, wringing her hands, cheer up mother i'll go and get to work somewhere said jack we've tried that before and nobody would take you said his mother we must sell milky white and with the money do something star shop or something all right mother says jack it's market day to day and i'll soon sell milky white and then we'll see what we can do, so he took the cow's halter in his hand, and off he starts. He hadn't gone far when he met a funny-looking man who said to him, Good morning, Jack. Good morning to you, said Jack, and wondered how he knew his name. Well, Jack, and where are you off to? said the man, I'm going to market to sell our cow there. You look the proper sort of chap to sell cows, said the man.

Starting point is 00:04:15 I wonder if you know how many beans make five. Two in each hand and one in your mouth, says Jack, as sharp as a needle. Right you are, said the man. And here they are the very beans themselves. He went on pulling out of his pocket a number of strange-looking beans. As he were so sharp, says he, I don't mind doing a swap with you, your cow for these beans. Walker, says Jack, wouldn't you like it? Ah, you don't know what these beans are, said the man.

Starting point is 00:05:03 If you plant them overnight, By morning they grow right up to the sky, says Jack. You don't say so. Yes, that is so. And if it doesn't turn out to be true, you can have your cow back. Right, says Jack, and hands over Milky White's halter and pockets the beans. Back goes Jack home, and he hadn't gone very far. It wasn't dusk by the time he got to the door.

Starting point is 00:05:41 You are back, Jack? said his mother. I see you haven't got Milky White, so you've sold her. How much did you get for her? You'll never guess, mother, says Jack. No, you don't say so, good boy. Five pounds, ten, fifteen. No, it can't be twenty. I told you you couldn't guess.

Starting point is 00:06:07 What do you say to these beans? They're magical. Plant them overnight and, says Jack's mother, have you been such a fool, such a don't, such an idiot as to give away my milky white, the best milker in the parish, prime beef to boot for a set of poultry beans? take that, take that, take that, and as for your precious beans, here they go out of the window, and now off with you to bed, not a sup shall you drink and not a bit shall you swallow this very night. So Jack went upstairs to his little room in the attic, and sad and sorrow he was, to be sure, Much for his mother's sake, as for the loss of his supper, he dropped off to sleep. Funny. The sun was shining into part of it, was quite done.

Starting point is 00:07:30 So Jack jumped up and dressed himself and went to the window. And what do you think he saw? Why the beans his mother had thrown out of the window into the garden, had sprung up into a big beanstalk, which went up, so the man spoke truth after all. The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack's window, so all he had to do was to open it and give a jump onto the beanstalk, which was made like a big plaited ladder. So Jack climbed any kind. and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed and he climbed till at last he reached the sky and when he got there he found a long going straight as a dart

Starting point is 00:08:39 so he walked along and he walked along and he walked along till he came to on the doorstep there was a great big good morning mum says Jack, quite polite like, Could you be so kind as to give me some breakfast? For he hadn't had anything to eat the night before and was hungry as a hunter. It's breakfast you want, is it? So the great big tall woman, it's breakfast you'll be if you don't move off from here.

Starting point is 00:09:26 My man is an ogre, and there's nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast. You'd better be moving on or he'll soon be coming. Oh please, ma'am, do you give me something to eat, ma'am. I've had nothing to eat since yesterday morning, really and truly, ma'am, said Jack. He may as well be broiled as die of hunger, ogre's wife, wasn't such a bad sort after all. So she took Jack into the kitchen

Starting point is 00:10:06 and gave him a slice of bread, cheese and a jug of milk. But Jack hadn't halfed finished these when thumped. Goodness gracious me, it's my old man, said the ogre's wife. What on earth shall I do? Come quick and jump in here.

Starting point is 00:10:41 And she bundled Jack, into the oven, just as the ogre came in. He was a big one, to be sure. At his belt, he had three calves strung up by their heels, and he unhooked them and threw them down on the table, and said, He, your wife, brought me a couple of these for breakfast. Ah, what's this I smell? The nonsense dear, said his wife, you're dreaming, or perhaps you smell the scraps of that little boy you like so much for yesterday's dinner. Here you go, have a wash and tidy up, and by the time you come back for your breakfast, I'll be ready for you. So the ogre went off, and Jack was just going to jump. out of the oven and run off when the woman told him not to.

Starting point is 00:12:03 Wait till he's asleep, says she. He always has a snooze after breakfast. While the ogre had his breakfast, he goes to a big chest and takes out of it a couple of bags of gold and sits counting them till at last his head began to nod, and he began to snore to the whole house shook again. Then Jack crept on tiptoe from his oven, passing the ogre. He took one to the beanstone through the bag of gold

Starting point is 00:12:59 till at last he got home and showed her the gold. Wasn't I right about the beans? They are really magical, you see. So they lived on the bag of gold for some time. But at last they came to the end of that. So Jack made up his mind to try his look once more, up the top of the beanstalk. So one fine morning, he got up early and got on to the beanstalk.

Starting point is 00:13:47 And he climbed and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed, and he climbed till at last he got on the road again, and came to the great big tall house he had been to before. There sure enough was the great big tall woman, says Jack, as bold as brass. Could you be so good as to give me something to eat? Go away, my boy, said the big tall woman, or else my man will eat you up for breakfast,

Starting point is 00:14:30 but aren't you the youngster who came here once before. do you know that very day's bags of gold? That strange, mum, says Jack, I dare say I could tell you something about that, but I'm so hungry. I can't speak till I've had something to eat. Was that curious that she took him in and gave him something to eat. But he had scarcely begun munching it, as slowly as he could, when that's a footstep, and his wife hid Jack away in the oven. All happened as it did as he had. She brought it, and the ogre said,

Starting point is 00:15:48 Lay and a snore, but that was all Jack heard, for he rushed off to the beanstalk and climbed down like a house on fire. And when he got home, he showed his mother the wonderful hen to have another try at his luck. So one fine morning He got up early in the bush Oger's wife Come out little rogue

Starting point is 00:18:27 That stole your gold And the hen that laid the golden eggs He's sure to have got into the oven But Jack wasn't my've said There you are again With your fee-fi-fo-fum Well of course is the ladd you caught last night that I broiled you for breakfast.

Starting point is 00:18:58 How forgetful I am, and how careless you are, not to tell the difference between a live-um and a deadum. So the ogre sat down to the breakfast and ate it. But every now and then he would mutter, well, I could have sworn, and he'd get up and search the larder, and the cupboards and everything, only look at the he didn't think of the copper. After breakfast was over, the ogre called out, bring me to the beanstalk,

Starting point is 00:20:54 and suddenly he saw Jack disappear like. And when he got up to the end of the road, he saw Jack underneath climbing down for dear life, while the ogre didn't like trusting himself to such a ladder, and he stood and waited, so Jack got another start. But just then, the harp cried out, master, master, and the ogre swung himself down onto the beanstall, which shook with his weight. Down climbs Jack, and after him climbed the ogre, but this. time, Jack had climbed down and climbed down and climbed down till he was nearly home. So he called out, Mother, Mother, bring me an axe, bring me an axe. And his mother came rushing out with the axe in her hand, stock with fright,

Starting point is 00:22:05 for there she saw the ogre just coming down below the clouds. But Jack jumped down and got hold of the hands. axe and gave a chop at the beanstalk, which cut it half in two. The ogre felt the beanstalk shake and quiver, so he stopped to see what was the matter. Then Jack gave another chop with the axe, and the beanstalk was cut in two and began to topple over. Then the ogre fell down and broke his crows. and the beanstalk came toppling after. Then Jack showed his mother his golden harp. And what with showing that and selling the golden eggs?

Starting point is 00:23:00 Jack and his mother became...

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Jack and the Beanstalk

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