So then the king gave a great ball, to bring all the chief men of the
country together to try would the shoe fit any of them. And they were
all going to carpenters and joiners getting bits of their feet cut off
to try could they wear the shoe, but it was no use, not one of them
could get it on.

Then the king went to his chief adviser and asked what could he do.
And the chief adviser bade him to give another ball, and this time he
said, "Give it to poor as well as rich."

So the ball was given, and many came flocking to it, but the shoe
would not fit any one of them. And the chief adviser said, "Is every
one here that belongs to the house?" "They are all here," said the
king, "except the boy that minds the cows, and I would not like him to
be coming up here."

Jack was below in the yard at the time, and he heard what the king
said, and he was very angry, and he went and got his sword and came
running up the stairs to strike off the king's head, but the man that
kept the gate met him on the stairs before he could get to the king,
and quieted him down, and when he got to the top of the stairs and the
princess saw him, she gave a cry and ran into his arms. And they tried
the shoe and it fitted him, and his hair matched to the piece that had
been cut off. So then they were married, and a great feast was given
for three days and three nights.

And at the end of that time, one morning there came a deer outside the
window, with bells on it, and they ringing. And it called out, "Here is
the hunt, where is the huntsman and the hound?" So when Jack heard that
he got up and took his horse and his hound and went hunting the deer.