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 your Welsh tricks, yet I hope to be cunning enough for you. Then getting out of bed he puts a billet in his stead, and hid himself in a corner of the room, and in the dead of the night the giant came with his great knotty club and struck several weighty blows upon the bed where Jack had been lying, and then returned to his his own chamber supposing he had broke all the bones in his body.

In the morning Jack gave him hearty thanks for his lodging. The giant said to him how have you rested? did you not feel something in the night? nothing quoth Jack, but a rat which three or four claps with her till. Soon after the giant arose and went to breakfast with a bowl of hasty pudding containing near four gallons, giving J cllJack [sic] the like quantity, who being loth to let the giant know he could not eat with him, got a large leathern bag. putting it very artfully under his loose coat, into which he secretly conveyed his pudding, telling the giant he could shew him a trick then taking a large knife, he ript open the bag, which the giant supposed to be his belly, when out came the pudding then the Welch giant cried out, Got's plut hur con do dat trick hurself. Then taking his sharp knife, and ript up hit own bely from the bottom to the top, and out dropt his tripes and bags, that hur fell down for dead: this Jack outwitted the giant, and proceeded on his journey.

KING Arthurs son only desired of his father to furnish him with certain sum of money, that he might go and seek has fortune in the principality of Wales, where a beautiful lady lived who he heard was possessed with seven evil spirits; but the king his father advised him against it,