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An alternate retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk where Jack decides to run away with the cow instead of selling her because he refuses to part with his best friend, and they're both sick of getting no respect from his greedy mother. They're planning to build a small hut and live off the land when a merchant comes along and offers magic beans in exchange for the cow. Jack thinks the merchant is trying to swindle him, so he whispers a plan to the cow before making the deal. After the exchange is made and the merchant and cow are a good ways away, the cow kicks the merchant in the shins and high-tails it back to Jack's hut. Meanwhile, jack has planted the beans in the hopes of growing some food. By the next morning, the beans have sprouted into a really tall beanstalk and blah blah blah, Jack finds himself in a village inhabited by ten foot tall giants. A kindly old giant couple (named Boris and Susan) take Jack in and, after hearing his story, give him a bag of food and a bag of gold to take back down to Earth. From then on, Jack is good friends with the giants and visits them every so often and vice versa. Pretty soon, Jack and the cow are doing alright for themselves, and his mother finds out about it somehow, and also finds about the beanstalk somehow. Seething with envy, she angrily chops down the beanstalk. Unfortunately, this happened when Boris was visiting, so now he's stranded on Earth with no way to get back home to his wife, so he and Jack team up and find the merchant who sold Jack the beans in the first place, in the hopes of growing another beanstalk. But the merchant's still pretty ticked about his broken shins, so he sets Jack and Boris on a series of seemingly impossible tasks to prove their worth.

I'll figure out the rest later.
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