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 hatchet, out the bean-stalk close off at the root, which made the giant fall headlong into the garden — the fall killed him, thereby releasing the world from a barbarous enemy. Jack’s mother was delighted when she saw the bean-stalk destroyed; at this instant the fairy appeared: she first addressed Jack’s mother, and explained every circumstance relating to the journeys up the bean-stalk. The fairy then charged Jack to be dutiful to his mother, and to follow his father’s good example, which was the only way to be happy. She then disappeared; he heartily begged her pardon for all the sorrow and affliction he had caused her, promising, most faithfully, to be very dutiful and obedient to her for the future.