He comes down off his horse’s back, and he kills little Hear-all. He cuts his head off, and well off timed [ofttimes] he goes crying about Hear-all, for what he done. Goes on a little further. Spring-all says to him, ‘Jack, you have got to come down and serve me the same.’ [[271]]
‘Oh dear, no!’ he says, ‘Spring-all, I shall take it all to heart.’
‘Well,’ he says, ‘if you don’t come down, Jack,’ he says, ‘I will devour you.’
Jack comes down, and he cuts his head off, and he goes on the road, crying very much to hisself about his two little dogs. So going on this road as he was crying, he turned his head round at the back of his horse, looking behind him, and he sees two of the handsomest young ladies coming as ever he saw in his life.
‘What are you crying for?’ said these ladies to him.
‘I am crying,’ he said, ‘about two little dogs, two faithful dogs, what I had.’
‘What was the name of your little dogs?’
‘One was named Hear-all, and the t’other was named Spring-all.’
‘Would you know them two dogs if you would see them again?’
‘Oh dear, yes!’ says Jack. ‘Oh dear, yes!’ says Jack.