For the people at his approach would forsake their habitations then he would take their cows and oxen, of which he would make nothing to carry over on his hack half a dozen at a time and as for sheep and hogs, he would tie them round his waist. His habitation was a cave in the midst of the mount neither would he suffer any living creature to inhabit near him his feeding was upon other men’s cattle : for whensoever he had occasion for food, he would wade over to the main land, where he would furnish himself with whatever he could find. In those days the mount of Cornwall was kept by a huge and monstrous Giant, of 27 feet high, and 3 yards in compass, of a grim countenance, to the terror of all the neighbouring towns. The Parson, finding himself fool’d, trudged away, leaving Jack in a fit of laughter. You are out again, quoth, Jack, for God made them bulls, but my father and his man Hobson made oxen of them. Who made these oxen? the Parson replied, God. Well, master Parson quoth Jack, you have asked me one question, and I have answered it let me ask you another. The Person replied, thou art an arch wag, Jack.
Nay, quoth Jack, master Parson, you are out of that it is true there were ten, but you broke one of them with your own maid Margery.
Never was any person heard of that could worst him nay, the learned he baffled by his cunning and ready inventions.įor instance, when he was no more than seven years of age, his father sent him into the field to look after his oxen, a country Vicar, by chance, one day coming across the field, called Jack, and asked him several questions in particular, How many commandments were there? Jack told him, there were nine. He was brisk, and of a lively ready wit so that whatever he could not perform by strength, he completed by wit and policy. In the reign of King Arthur, near the Land's-end of England, in the county of Cornwall, there lived a wealthy farmer, who had one only son, commonly known by the name of Jack.
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