The work of Flora Annie Steel
Once upon a time, there lived a boy named Jack and lives with his mother. They were very poor and the elderly mother to support them by working as a weaver, but Jack himself is a child who is lazy and never want to do anything other than basking in the sun on a hot day, and sat in the corner of the house in winter. So he called the Lazy Jack. His own mother was never able to make Jack do something for him, and finally one day da told Jack that if he does not start to work and support himself, his mother would not care about her anymore.
It is troubling Jack, and he then left the house looking for work the next day at the neighboring farmers and managed to get one penny (British currency); but because during this time he never came home holding money, he loses his money when passing through a river.
"Son of a fool," said his mother, "you should put your money in the bag."
"I'll do it another time," said Jack the Lazy.
The next day, Jack went out to work on a baker who did not give him nothing but a big cat. Jack picked up the cat and took it carefully in his hands, but the cat clawed his hand, so he had to let go of the cat who then ran away.
When he came home, his mother said to him, "You're a fool, you should have tied it with a rope and pulled him to follow you."
"I'll do it another time," said Jack.
The next day, he came out and worked on a butcher, who gave him the gift of a large mutton. Jack takes the lamb chops, tied with a rope and dragged on the ground along the way, so that when he arrived home, the lamb meat has been damaged at all. This time his mother did not say anything to him, and on Sunday, his mother required him to bring home the cabbage to be cooked later.
"You have to take him home and put him in the shoulder."
"I'll do it later," said Jack.
On Monday, the Lazy Jack worked on a cattle guard, who gave him a donkey as upahnya.Walaupun Jack is very strong, he still felt overwhelmed to carry the donkey on his shoulders, but eventually he was carrying the donkey on his shoulders and walked slowly to the house brought the prize. Along the way he walks in front of a house where the house is inhabited by a rich man with a girl only, a very pretty girl, who is deaf and mute. And the girl had never laughed in his life. Doctors once said that she would never be able to talk to someone can make her laugh. Her father, who feel sad that promised that he would marry his daughter to the man who could make his daughter laugh. When the young lady happened to look out of the window when Jack passed in front of his house while carrying the donkey on his shoulders; where the donkey is kicking his legs up in the air wildly and neigh-neigh loudly. The view was so funny that she burst laughing and when it also gained the ability to hear and speak. His father is so happy to see her son has been able to talk and listen, to fulfill his promise to marry off her daughter at the Lazy Jack, who later became a rich man too. They then live together in a big house with Jack's mother and lived happily until the end of their lives.
Jack the Lazy | Fairy tale (END)
