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5 child. You are out again (quoth Jack) for God made them bulls, but my father, and his man Hobson made oxen of them. These are the witty answers of Jack. The parson finding himself toll’d, trudged away, leaving Jack in a fit of laughter.

CHAP. II.

N those days the Mount of Cornwall, was swept by a hug and monstrous Giant, of eighten feet in height and about three yards is compass, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the neighbouring towns and villages; his habitation was in a cave, in the midst of all the mount, neither would he suffer any living creature to inhabit near him: His feeding was upon other