"By my kingdom!" said the ruler, "you are hard to please. What price have you set on him?"
"In exchange for my companion," said Jack, "I want you to give me your most beautiful daughter for a wife."
"What!" cried the King, "for no less?"
"For no less," said Jack.
"So be it," said the King. "I give you my youngest daughter, and a hundred thousand gold crown pieces for her dowry."
In a transport of joy Jack threw himself on the King's neck, and the marriage was celebrated at once, in the midst of pomp becoming so great a princess.
From that time the good King Calamor had no occasion to send his servants and his horses for the Day.
The Story of the Cat
We have seen how Jack made his fortune. Now let us see what became of his brother John, the possessor of the cat. We shall soon know whether he wandered over the earth in misery and misfortune.