“I have no money,” says Jack.
“But you have a fine cow,” says the man. “I will give you the bee and the harp for it.”
“O, but,” Jack says, says he, “my poor mother at home is very sad and sorrowful entirely, and I have this cow to sell and lift her heart again.”
“And better than this she cannot get,” says the man. “For when she sees the bee play the harp, she will laugh if she never laughed in her life before.”
“Well,” says Jack, says he, “that will be grand.”
He made the bargain. The man took the cow; and Jack started home with the bee and the harp in his pocket, and when he came home, his mother welcomed him back.
“And Jack,” says she, “I see you have sold the cow.”
“I have done that,” says Jack.
“Did you do well?” says the mother.
“I did well, and very well,” says Jack.