body-without-soul

there was a widow with a son named jack, who at thirteen wanted to leave home to seek his fortune his mother said to him, "what do you expect to do out in the world? don't you know you're still a little boy? when you're able to fell that pine tree behind our house with one kick, then you can go"

every day after that, as soon as he rose in the morning, jack would get a running start and jump against the trunk of the tree with both feet, but the pine never budged an inch and he fell flat on his back he would get up again, shake the dirt off, and go back inside

at last one fine morning he jumped with all his might, and the tree gave way and toppled to the ground, his roots in the air jack ran and got his mother who, surveying the felled tree, said, "you may now go wherever you wish, my son" jack bid her farewell and set out

after walking for days and days he came to a city whose king had a horse named rondello that no one had ever been able to ride people constantly tried, but were thrown just when it appeared they would succeed looking on, jack soon realized that the horse was afraid of its own shadow, so he volunteered to break rondello himself he began by going up to the horse in the stable, talking to it and patting it; then he suddenly jumped into the saddle and rode the animal outside straight into the sun that way it couldn't see any shadow to frighten it jack took a steady hold of the reins, pressed his knees to the horse, and galloped off a quarter of an hour later rondello was as docile as a lamb, but let no one ride him after that but jack

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