One day, he gave a sheepskin to his son, Jack.
“I want you to find someone who will buy this from you,” he said with a twinkle in his eye. “But they must let you keep it, too!”
So Jack left the farm where they lived and set off down the road. He asked everyone he met if they wouLd pay him for the skin and let him keep it as well - but they just laughed at him!
Jack sat down by a stream, feeling frustrated. Surely his father had given him an impossible job! Just then, a maiden
