you will do as I tell you. Go you outside, and stand at the door they
will be coming in by, and when they see you, your own son will bow his
head, but the cook's son will only laugh."

So she did that, and when her own son bowed his head, her servants put
a mark on him that she would know him again. And when they were all
sitting at their dinner after that, she said to Jack, that was the
cook's son, "It is time for you to go away out of this, for you are not
my son." And her own son, that we will call Bill, said, "Do not send
him away, are we not brothers?" But Jack said, "I would have been long
ago out of this house if I knew it was not my own father and mother
owned it." And for all Bill could say to him, he would not stop. But
before he went, they were by the well that was in the garden, and he
said to Bill, "If harm ever happens to me, that water on the top of the
well will be blood, and the water below will be honey."

Then he took one of the pups, and one of the two horses, that was
foaled after the mare eating the fish, and the wind that was after him
could not catch him, and he caught the wind that was before him. And he
went on till he came to a weaver's house, and he asked him for a
lodging, and he gave it to him. And then he went on till he came to a
king's house, and he sent in at the door to ask, "Did he want a
servant?" "All I want," said the king, "is a boy that will drive out
the cows to the field every morning, and bring them in at night to be
milked." "I will do that for you," said Jack; so the king engaged him.

In the morning Jack was sent out with the four-and-twenty cows, and
the place he was told to drive them to had not a blade of grass in it
for them, but was full of stones. So Jack looked about for some place
where there would be better grass, and after a while he saw a field