We all know the story of Jack
and the Beanstalk. If you want to find this cache you do not need
any magic beans or have to climb a beanstalk, but you do need to be
prepared to climb a tree at your own risk!
The story tells of a boy named Jack who
was sent to the market one day by his mother to sell their last
possession, the cow. As Jack proceeded to the market he met a
stranger who offered to trade five "magic beans" for the cow. Jack
accepted the trade and returned back home with the beans in his
pocket. Jack's mother was angered that he had not obeyed her
instructions to sell the cow and threw the beans out of the
window.
As Jack slept, the beans germinated in
the soil, and a gigantic beanstalk grew in their place by morning.
When Jack saw the huge beanstalk, he immediately decided to climb
it. He arrived in a land high up in the clouds that happened to be
the home of a giant. When he broke into the giant's castle, the
giant quickly sensed a human was near:
Fee-fi-fo-fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishman.
Be he 'live, or be he dead,
I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
However, Jack was saved by the giant's
wife and as he escaped from the palace, he took a bag of gold coins
with him. Jack desired to seek out more treasures from the castle
in the clouds and climbed once more up the beanstalk. This time he
stole a hen which laid golden eggs. Again he was saved from harm by
the giant's wife.
Jack disregarded being nearly discovered
by the giant twice and decided to go up the beanstalk a third time.
This time, he stole a magical harp that played by itself. The
instrument did not appreciate being stolen and called out to the
giant for help. The giant chased Jack down the beanstalk, but Jack
managed to get to the ground before the giant did. Jack, seeing an
axe on the ground beside him, immediately chopped the beanstalk
down. The giant fell to earth, hitting the ground so hard that it
split, pulling the beanstalk down with him. That was the end of the
giant and the beanstalk!
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