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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Well," says Jack, "I admire your spirit; but before you go," says he, "let me make you a little present," and he handed her a tablecloth. "There," says he, "if you marry Hookedy-Crookedy, as long as you have this tablecloth, you will never want eating and drinking of the best." The other two sisters grabbed to get the tablecloth from her but Jack put out his hands and pushed them back.
Here is a tablecloth," says he, "and every time you spread it out you will have it covered with eating and drinking of all sorts." Jack took it, and thanked him, and rode away. He left the mare and the bear in their own wood, and became Hookedy-Crookedy again, and ran back to his garden. The Yellow Rose told him of the brave soldier that had won her father's battle that day.
He did all he could to make her fall in love with him, and told her of all his great wealth and possessions and offered himself to her, and said if she only would marry him she should live in ease and luxury and happiness all the days of her life, as she never could do with Hookedy-Crookedy.
Her sisters made a grab to snatch it from her, but Jack shoved them back, and went out. And Jack rode away with the mare after dinner and left her in the wood. When he came back to his garden he always came in the Hookedy-Crookedy shape and always pretended he had been off on a message for the King. The third day he went to the wood again.
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