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196 GLOOSCAP AND OTHER STORIES
Give you my cow indeed!" cried Jack.
I will give you a stone on your head instead.
Jack picked up a large stone, and was just about
to throw it, when the man pulled out a tiny
flute from his pocket and began to play upon
it. The stone dropped from Jack s hand. His
arms and his legs began to twitch, and before he
knew what he was about, he began to dance.
The cow joined him, and both together danced
away with all their might.
"Hold! Hold!" cried Jack. "Stop your
music, and let me catch my breath."
"Give me your cow and I will,"
said the
man.
"I will not do it!" answered Jack.
"Then dance away," said the man, and poor
Jack danced until he was ready to drop from
fatigue, and was glad to give up the cow to
have the music stopped. The man took the
cow, and gave Jack the flute. Jack went home
without his cow or his money, and was obliged
to tell his mother for the third time that he had
been trapped.
This time her anger knew no bounds. She
vowed that she would kill him, and seized an
iron to strike him. But Jack whipped out his
as if his life
magical flute and began to play
depended upon it,
as indeed it did. The old
woman was charmed by the music and danced
and danced, scolding away all the while, telling