"What kind of plant is this? What..."

Jack dumped the gold coins out before her. "You see, mom, I did the right thing by exchanging that cow for the beans. They really were magic! This beanstalk reaches up above the clouds to a castle with a giant ogre and..." Jack proceeded to tell his mother the whole story.


In the days that followed, Jack and his mother's house was made into a comfortable home. The gold pieces were spent to buy a lot of things Jack and his mother never had before. They were both very happy.

As time went by, so did the money. When the last gold piece had been spent, Jack decided to go climb the beanstalk again.