Jack made another journey up the beanstalk to the giant's castle one day while his mother had gone to market. The giantess dragged him in as she had done before to help her do the work; but she heard her husband coming, and hid him in the wardrobe.
Then the giant came in saying:
Fe, fa, fi-fo-fum,
I smell the breath of an Englishman.
Let him be alive or let him be dead,
I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
"Nonsense!" said the wife, "it is only a roasted bullock that I thought would be a tit-bit for your supper; sit down and I will bring it up at once."
The giant sat down, and soon his wife brought up a roasted bullock on a large dish, and they began their supper. As soon as they had finished their meal, the giant asked his wife to bring him his money bags to count his golden pieces.
The giantess went and soon returned with two large bags over her shoulders, which she put down by her husband.
The giant, when his wife was gone, took out heaps and heaps of golden pieces, and counted them, and put them in piles, until he was tired of the amusement. Then he swept them all back into their bags, and leaning back in his chair fell fast asleep.
Jack stole softly out of the wardrobe, and taking up the bags of money (which were his very own, because the giant had stolen them from his father), he ran off, and with great difficulty descending the beanstalk, laid the bags of gold on his mother's table.
"There, mother, I have brought you the gold that my father lost."
Jack's mother was very glad to get the money, but she did not like him to run any risk for her.
