Jack lived alone you think, no, he lived with his Mother, a single Mom. She scolded him not much, so he was good to her but he didn't listen to her much because the scolding hurt his feelings.
He went to market to buy a cow, with egg money he made from selling eggs. His hen was kaput, and he sold the hen too, for meat to his Mother coz he waas a business man, being a Libertarian. She gave him two gold coins and he went to market and got beans for the gold coins and eggs. He brought home the beans. He wasn't very bright, people said. He gave the beans to his Mother and she grew a beanstalk that reached up to heaven. In heaven there was a man a-waiting her there, to marry her I meant. Is what I say making sense, children?
She tried to explain this was the best they could do, to Heavenly Father in prayer, since beans were all they had, but could they please have a husband out of it, a father out of it.
They tried to get help every way they could but a father was needed for the boy, because he was dim-witted, said the Mother to the Lord.
"So, could you make a miracle happen, and give me a man?"
She was worried about her son's welfare said the Lord, so he'd see if he could help her.
So they tried with the beans and planted them gaily around the yard. Is what I mean clear, children?
They asked the Lord to bless the yard to grow a crop of beans and a man, and down he fell to the earth in a moment after the beanstalk grew up to heaven. The Maker sent him down to be a husband to her, a father to him. (She sat up straight and wore her hair in braids, a tomahawk by her side in case anyone came around the corner in a hurry and she had to slay him for slaying her first otherwise (self-defence only).)
She didn't know him, so she slayed him not, but asked him his name, and he said, "Al". So they were happily married and the child was born they had together. And the boy's name was Somerset (Jack for short in this fairy story) and the baby's name was Galit. And that is the end of the story.
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