Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack and his sister Jill.
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Jill and her brother Jack. A different Jill, and a different Jack altogether.
Now, Jack who had a sister Jill, and Jill who had a brother Jack, were madly in love. They had every intention of getting married one day. The other Jill and the other Jack, were, as far as anyone else knew, not romantically involved. However, they were quite compatible in their entrepreneurial styles, and decided to go into business together.
So one day, Jill and Jack went up a hill, to put their very first business plan into action. Meanwhile, Jack and Jill stayed behind to have a picnic under a tree, complete with tea and crumpets and wings and crowns. They were very festive picnic-ers.
Although Jack had insisted that tap water should work just fine, Jill had forced him to go up the hill with her to fetch a pail of cold spring water, so that they could bottle that cold spring water and sell it to others, starting with, probably, Jack and Jill.
Unfortunately, they never made it to that point. While trying to scoop the cold spring water into the first plastic bottle, Jack slipped on a wet rock and began to roll down the hill at a terrifying speed. Jack and Jill below were so busy below staring into each other’s souls that neither of them saw Jack hurtling toward them, with the result that Jack smashed into Jack, bruising his face, and knocking the crown from his head. When Jill saw the crown lying broken on the ground, she tumbled into the mess as well, screaming and kicking and scratching.
Meanwhile, Jill remained atop the hill, slowly filling water bottles. By the time she made her way down, Jack, Jack and Jill had stopped fighting and were all very tired and thirsty. Since they were friends, Jill only charged each of them $2.50.
The End.
Source: Jack and Jill, Nursery Rhyme
