the women laughing at them through the window, while they made motions
for them to stop, but all to no purpose.

They were nine days on their journey, in which they did try to keep
the Sunday holy, when one of the little men turned to be the priest,
the other the clerk, and third presided at the organ, and the women
were the singers, for they had a grand chapel in the castle already.
Very remarkable, there was a discord made in the music, and one of the
little men ran up one of the organ-pipes to see where the bad sound
came from, when he found out it only happened to be that the two women
were laughing at the little red man stretching his little legs full
length on the bass pipes, also his two arms the same time, with his
little red night-cap, which he never forgot to wear, and what they
never witnessed before, could not help calling forth some good
merriment while on the face of the deep. And poor thing! through them
not going on with what they begun with, they very near came to danger,
as the castle was once very near sinking in the middle of the sea.

At length, after a merry journey, they come again to Jack and the
King. The King was quite struck with the sight of the castle; and
going up the golden stairs, went to see the inside.

The King was very much pleased with the castle, but poor Jack's time
of a twelvemonths and a day was drawing to a close; and he, wishing to
go home to his young wife, gives orders to the three little men to get
ready by the next morning at eight o'clock to be off to the next
brother, and to stop there for one night; also to proceed from there
to the last or the youngest brother, the master of all the mice in the
world, in such place where the castle shall be left under his care
until it's sent for. Jack takes a farewell of the King, and thanks him