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10 was his fortune to light on him. This Giant kept an enchanted castle, in the midst of a loansome wood. Now Jack about for months after walking near to the borders of the said wood, in his journey towards Wales he grew weary, and thereafore sat himself down by the side of a pleasent fountain, where a dead sleep suddenly seized on him: at which the Giant coming there for water, found him, and by the lines written on his belt, knew him to be Jack that killed his brother Giant; and therefore, without making any words, he throws him upon his shoulder, for to carrry him to his enchanted castle.

Now as they passed through a thicket the mffling of the bows awakned poor Jack, who finding himself in the clutches of the Giant, was strongly surprised, yet it was but the beginning of his terror, for at entering within the first walls of the castle, he beheld the ground all covered with bones and sculls of dead men. The Giant telling Jack, "that his bones would enlarge the number that