asants, not being able to put up with such outrages, told Jack's
father that he must either cause his son to mend his manners or not
permit him to go out into the street to play with the children. The
father for a long time struggled to reform Jack, but perceiving that his
son did not improve he resolved to turn him out of doors, and said to
him: "Depart from me and go wheresoever you please. I will keep you no
longer in my house, for I am much afraid lest some misfortune should
happen to me on your account."

So Jack with the Bear's Ear, having taken leave of his father and mother,
departed on his way. He journeyed for a long time until he arrived at a
forest, where he beheld a man cutting oaken billets. He went up to him
and said, "Good fellow, what may be your name?"

"Quercillo," replied the other, whereupon they became sworn brothers and
proceeded farther. Arriving at a rocky mountain they perceived a man
hewing the rock, to whom they said, "God help you, honest lad; and what
may your name be?"

"My name is Montano," replied he.

Whereupon they called him their brother, and proposed to him that he
should leave off digging the mountain and should consent to go with them
forthwith. He agreed to their proposal, and all three forthwith
proceeded on their way, and journeyed for some time. Arriving at the
bank of a river they saw a man sitting, who had a pair of enormous
moustaches with which he angled for fish for his subsistence. They all
three said to him, "God help you brother in your fish-catching."

"Thank you, brothers," he replied.

"What may your name be?" they inquired.

"Moustacho," he answered. Whereupon they called him also their brother
and invited him to join their company, which he did not refuse. And so
these four journeyed on, and whether they journeyed long or short, far or
near, my tale will be soon told, though the deed was a long time in
doing. At last they arrived at a forest, where they saw a cabin standing
on crow's feet, which kept turning here and there. They went up to it,
and said, "Cabin, cabin, stand with your rear to the wood and your front
to us."

The cabin instantly obeyed them, and they having entered it began to
consult how they should contrive to live there. After that they all went
into the forest, killed some game, and prepared food for themselves. On
the second day they left Quercillo at home to cook the dinner, whilst
they themselves went into the forest to