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 to break the enchantment, and free the lady, together with the rest, that were miserable partakers in her calamity.

AVING refreshed themselves with a small morsel of meat, they said them down to rest, and in the morning Jack arose, put on his invisible coat, his cap of knowledge, and shoes of swiftness.

Now when he had ascended to the top of the mountain, he soon discovered the two fiery griffins, he passed on between them without fear, for they could not see him by reason of his invisible coat Now when he had got beyond them he turned his eyes around him, where he found upon the gate a golden trumpet hung in a chain of fine silver under which these lines were written;

Jack had no sooner read this description, but he blew the trumpet, at which time the vast foundation of the castle trembled, and the giant together with the conjuror were in horrid confusion, biting their thumbs and tearing their hair, knowing their wicked reign was at an end. At which time Jack, standing at the giant's elbow as he was stooping to take up the club, he at one blow with his sword of sharpness, cut off his head. The conjuror seeing this, soon mounted upon the air, and was carried awy by