After he burns him, he burns him to dust.
The Black Dog of the Wild Forest says to th’ owd lady, ‘When Jack burns me to dust, you get a little stick and rake my dust about, and you will find a lucky-bone. You drop that lucky-bone in Jack’s ear when he goes to bed, and Jack will never waken no more, and then you can take and bury him, and after that Jack is buried there will be no more said about him.’
Well, th’ owd woman did do so, sir. When Jack went to bed, she got this lucky-bone and did as the Black Dog of the Wild Forest told her. She did drop it in Jack’s ear, and Jack was dead. They take Jack off to bury him. Jack been buried three days, and the parson wondered what these two little dogs was moping about the grave all the time. He couldn’t get them away.
‘I think we’ll rise Jack again,’ he says.
And s’ever they rise him, off opened the lid of the coffin, and little Hear-all jumped to the side of his head, and he licked the lucky-bone out of his ear. And up Jack jumped alive.
Jack says, ‘Who ever put me here?’
‘It was the king as had you buried here, Jack.’
Jack made his way home to his own father and mother. Going on the road Jack was riding bounded on the back of his horse’s back. Hear-all says to him, ‘Jack,’ he says, ‘come down, cut my head off.’
‘Oh dear, no! Hear-all. I couldn’t do that for the kindness you have done for me.’
‘If you don’t do it, Jack, I shall devour you.’