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140 ENGLISH FAIRY TALES


here to-morrow morning and you shall have Milky-White back again. Will that please you?" "Right as a trivet," cried Jack, without stopping to think, and the next moment he found himself standing on an empty road. "Two in each hand and one in my mouth," repeated Jack. "That is what I said, and what I'll do. Everything in order, and if what the queer, little, old man said isn't true, I shall get Milky-White back to-morrow morning.” So whistling and munching the bean he trudged home cheerfully, wondering what the sky would be like if he ever got there. "What a long time you've been!" exclaimed his mother, who was watching anxiously for him at the gate. "It is past sun-setting; but I see you have sold Milky-White. Tell me quick how much you got for her.” "You'll never guess," began Jack. "Laws-a-mercy! You don't say so," interrupted the good woman. "And I worritting all day lest they should take you in. What was it? Ten pounds-fifteen-sure it can't be twenty Jack held out the beans triumphantly. "There," he said. "That's what I got for her, and a jolly good bargain too!" It was his mother's turn to be flabbergasted; but all she said was:

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