# How Jack Went Out To Seek His Fortune

An episode of [Classic English Stories For Kids](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1509930659), 3 Nov 2022, 5:52.

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Written by: Flora Annie Steel Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack who decided to seek his fortune. On the way, he kept meeting new animals who joined him on his journey. Every time he said, "the more and the merrier" and kept increasing his entourage. So finally he was accompanied by a cat, a dog, a goat, a bull, and a rooster. As the night fell, they started to look for a place to stay. Jack saw a gang of thieves who were dealing with some stolen gold. On his cue, all the animals started making noise which scared the thieves and they ran away leaving everything behind. Knowing that thieves will return back, Jack put his other plan in place to ensure thieves were not able to steal the fortune from him. If you like the show, support us by becoming a patron on this link: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradio Visit our website to know more: https://chimesradio.com All podcast listening links: http://chimesradio.bio.link/ Connect with us on our social handles to get all content updates: https://www.instagram.com/vrchimesradio/ https://www.facebook.com/chimesradioSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradioSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: How Jack went out to seek his fortune, Written by
[0:04] Speaker 1: Flora Annie Steele. Once upon a time there was a
[0:10] Speaker 1: boy named Jack, and one morning he started to go
[0:14] Speaker 1: and seek his fortune. He hadn't gone very far before
[0:18] Speaker 1: he met a cat. Where are you going? Jack said
[0:22] Speaker 1: the cat. I'm going to seek my fortune. May I
[0:27] Speaker 1: go with you? Yes? Said Jack. The more the merrier,
[0:32] Speaker 1: and so on they went Jack and the cat. They
[0:36] Speaker 1: went a little father and they met a dog. Where
[0:40] Speaker 1: are you going? Jack said the dog. I'm going to
[0:44] Speaker 1: seek my fortune. May I go with you? Yes? Said Jack.
[0:50] Speaker 1: The more the merrier, and so on they went Jack,
[0:54] Speaker 1: the cat and the dog. They went a little farther
[0:58] Speaker 1: and they met a goat. Where are you going? Jack
[1:02] Speaker 1: said the goat. I'm going to seek my fortune. May
[1:06] Speaker 1: I go with you? Yes? Said Jack. The more the merrier,
[1:12] Speaker 1: and so on they went Jack, the cat, the dog,
[1:16] Speaker 1: and the goat. They went a little father and they
[1:20] Speaker 1: met a bull. Where are you going? Jack said the bull,
[1:25] Speaker 1: I'm going to seek my fortune. May I go with you? Yes?
[1:30] Speaker 1: Said Jack. The more the merrier, and so on they
[1:34] Speaker 1: went Jack, the cat, the dog, the goat and the bull.
[1:41] Speaker 1: They went a little father and they met a rooster.
[1:45] Speaker 1: Where are you going, Jack, said the rooster. I'm going
[1:48] Speaker 1: to seek my fortune. May I go with you? Yes,
[1:53] Speaker 1: said Jack. The more the merrier, And so on they
[1:57] Speaker 1: went Jack, the cat, the dog, the goat, the bull,
[2:03] Speaker 1: and the rooster. And they went on jiggilty chalting till
[2:07] Speaker 1: it was about dark, and it was time to think
[2:10] Speaker 1: of someplace where they could spend the night. Now, after
[2:14] Speaker 1: a bit they came in sight of a house, and
[2:17] Speaker 1: Jack told his companions to keep still while he went
[2:20] Speaker 1: up and looked in through the window to see if
[2:23] Speaker 1: all was safe. And he saw through the window a
[2:26] Speaker 1: band of robbers seated at a table, counting over great
[2:30] Speaker 1: bags of gold. That gold shall be mine, said Jack
[2:34] Speaker 1: to himself, I have found my fortune already. Then he
[2:39] Speaker 1: went back and told his companions to wait till he
[2:42] Speaker 1: gave the word, and then to make all the noise
[2:45] Speaker 1: they possibly could in their own fashion. So when they
[2:48] Speaker 1: were already, Jack gave the word, and the cat mewed,
[2:53] Speaker 1: and the dog barked, and the goat bleated, and the
[2:56] Speaker 1: bull bellowed, and the rooster crowed, and all together they
[3:00] Speaker 1: made such a terrific hubbub that the robbers jumped up
[3:05] Speaker 1: in a fright and ran away, leaving their gold on
[3:08] Speaker 1: the table. So after a good laugh, Jack and his
[3:12] Speaker 1: companions went in and took possession of the house and
[3:16] Speaker 1: the gold. Now Jack was a wise boy, and he
[3:20] Speaker 1: knew that the robbers would come back in the dead
[3:22] Speaker 1: of the night to get their gold. And so when
[3:25] Speaker 1: it came time to go to bed, he put the
[3:27] Speaker 1: cat in the rocking chair, and he put the dog
[3:30] Speaker 1: under the table, and he put the goat upstairs, and
[3:34] Speaker 1: he put the bull in the cellar, and made the
[3:36] Speaker 1: rooster fly up onto the roof. Then he went to bed. Now,
[3:41] Speaker 1: sure enough, in the dead of the night, the robbers
[3:44] Speaker 1: sent one man back to the house to look after
[3:47] Speaker 1: their money. But before long he came back in a
[3:50] Speaker 1: great fright and told them a fearsome tale. I went
[3:55] Speaker 1: back to the house, said he, and went in and
[3:57] Speaker 1: tried to sit down in the rocking chair. And there
[4:01] Speaker 1: was an old woman knitting there, and she, oh, my,
[4:05] Speaker 1: stuck her knitting needles into me. That was the cat,
[4:09] Speaker 1: you know. Then I went to the table to look
[4:12] Speaker 1: after the money, but there was a shoemaker under the table,
[4:16] Speaker 1: and my, how he stuck his all into me. That
[4:20] Speaker 1: was the dog, you know. So I started to go upstairs,
[4:24] Speaker 1: but there was a man up there threshing, and goody,
[4:28] Speaker 1: he knocked me down with his flail. That was the goat,
[4:32] Speaker 1: you know. Then I started to go down to the cellar,
[4:35] Speaker 1: but oh dear me, there was a man down there
[4:40] Speaker 1: chopping wood, and he knocked me up, and he knocked
[4:44] Speaker 1: me down, just terrible with his axe. That was the bull,
[4:49] Speaker 1: you know. But I shouldn't have minded all that if
[4:53] Speaker 1: I hadn't been for an awful little fellow on the
[4:56] Speaker 1: top of the house by the kitchen Chimney kept a
[5:00] Speaker 1: hollering and hollering, cook him in a stew, cook him
[5:04] Speaker 1: in a stew, cook him in a stew, And that,
[5:08] Speaker 1: of course, was the cocker doodle Doo. Then the robbers
[5:12] Speaker 1: agreed that they would rather lose their gold than meet
[5:15] Speaker 1: with such a fate, so they made off, and Jack
[5:18] Speaker 1: next morning went gaily home with his booty, and each
[5:23] Speaker 1: of the animals carried a portion of it. The cat
[5:26] Speaker 1: hung a bag on its tail, the dog on his collar,
[5:30] Speaker 1: the goat and the bull on their horns. But Jack
[5:32] Speaker 1: made the rooster carry a golden guinea in its beak
[5:36] Speaker 1: to prevent it from calling all the time cock a
[5:39] Speaker 1: doodle Do cook him in a stew,

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