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Updated: May 24, 2025
A couple of drops of Ioca brought the King's two sons-in-law to their senses again, and at Jack's request, they were ordered to go and live elsewhere. Jack went off, left his mare in the wood, and came into the garden as Hookedy-Crookedy. He told the Yellow Rose he had been gathering bilberries. "Oh," says she, "I have something grand for you. Let me comb your hair with this comb."
He told him how he was Hookedy-Crookedy, and that it reflected a great deal of honour on his youngest daughter that she whom the King thought so worthless should refuse to give up Hookedy-Crookedy for the one she thought a wealthy prince. The King, you may be sure, was now highly delighted to grant him all he desired.
"Well, well," says Jack, says he, "he must have been a grand fellow entirely. It is a pity I was not there, but I had to go on a message for the King." "Poor Hookedy-Crookedy," says she, "what could you do if you were there yourself?" Jack went to the wood again next morning, and consulted with the mare.
Says they to Hookedy-Crookedy, "What will you take for your two bottles?" Says Jack, "I will take the golden balls of your marriage pledge, and also you shall allow me to write something on your backs." And they agreed to this.
"Oh, my poor Hookedy-Crookedy," says she, "it was better so, for what could you do?"
The Yellow Rose came out, and told him about the great victory a brave and beautiful soldier, brother to the fine fellow of the day before, had won for her father. "Well, well," says Jack, says he, "that was very wonderful entirely. I am sorry I was not there, but I had to be away on a message for your father." "But, my poor Hookedy-Crookedy," says she, "it was better so, for what could you do?"
On this day, as on the other two days after the battle, they cured the dead and the wounded with the bottles of Ioca, and all were well again. When Jack went to the wood, he left the mare and the bear in it and became Hookedy-Crookedy again, and went home and to his garden.
Says the mare, "Look in my left ear, Jack, and see what you will see." Jack looked in the mare's left ear, and took out of it a grand soldier's dress. The mare told him to put it on and get on her back. On he put the dress, and at once Hookedy-Crookedy was transformed into a very handsome, dashing young fellow, and off went Jack and the mare and the bear, the three of them, away to the war.
Here is a purse, and no matter how often and how much you pay out of it, it will never be empty." Jack took it, and thanked him, and rode away. In the wood he left the mare and the bear, and was again changed into Hookedy-Crookedy, and went home to his garden.
Jack fell a-chatting with her and used all his arts to win her; and of course, in this handsome Jack she did not recognize ugly little Hookedy-Crookedy. He told her he had heard that she had the very bad taste to fall in love with an ugly, crooked, wee fellow in her father's garden.
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