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 Say'ſt thou ſo, quoth Jack, that is like one of your Welſh tricks, yet I hope to be cunning enough for you. Then getting out of bed, he put a billet in his ſtead and bid himſelf in a corner of the room, and in the dead time of the night, the Welſh Giant came with his great knotty club, and ſtruck ſeveral blows upon the bed where Jack had laid the billet, and then returned to his own chamber ſuppoſing he had broken 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 gave me three or four ſlaps with her tail. Soon after the Giant aroſe, and went to breakfaſt with a bowl of haſty pudding, containing near four gallons, giving Jack the like quantity; who, being loath to let the Giant know he could not eat with him, got a large leather-bag putting it artfully under his looſe coat, into which he ſecretly conveyed his pudding, telling the Giant, he could ſhow him a trick; Then taking a large knife, he ripped open the bag, which the Giant ſuppoſed to be his belly, when out came the haſty pudding: At which the Welſh Giant, cried out, Cuts plut, hur can do dat trick hurſelf. Then taking his ſharp knife, he ripped up his own belly, from the bottom to the top, and out dropped his tripes and troly bags, ſo that hur fell down for dead: thus Jack outwitted the Giant, and proceeded forward on his journey.

Arthur's Son, only deſired of his father to furniſh him with a certain ſum of money; that he might go and ſeek his fortune