In come the wagoner, and he asked, ‘What did he kill the missus and the sarvint for.’ And he says, ‘I’ll sarve you the same,’ he says. He wanted to try this stick what he had off Jack. He thought he could use it the same way as Jack. So he touched the missus with it fust, but she never rose. He touched the servant with it, and she never rose. He touched the wagoner, and he never rose. ‘Well,’ he says, ‘I’ll try the big end,’ he says, and he tries the knob. So he battered and battered with the knob till he battered the brains out of the three of them.
He does no more, and he goes up to Jack and says, ‘O Jack, you’ve ruined me for life.’ He says, ‘Jack, I shall have to drown you.’
So Jack says, ‘All right, master.’
‘Well, get in this bag,’ he says; and he takes him on his back. As he was going along the road, he … went one field off the road, being a very methlyist man. During the time he was down there, there come a drōvyer by with his cattle. Now Jack’s head was out of the sack.
‘Hello! Jack, where are you going?’
‘To heaven, I hope.’
‘Oh! Jack, let me go. I’m an older man till you, and I’ll give you all my money and this cattle.’
Jack told him to unloosen the bag to let him out, and for him to get into it. Away Jack goes with the cattle and the money. So the master comes up, taking no notice of it, and [[262]]he picks the bag up, and puts it on his shoulder, and goes on till he comes to Monfort’s Bridge.[18] He says, ‘One, two, three’; and away he chucks him over.
Well, Jack goes now about the country, dealing in cattle. So in about three years’ time he comes round the same way again, round the master’s place.
So, ‘Hello! Jack,’ he says, ‘where ever did you get them from?’