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8 Sayeſt thou ſo, quoth Jack, this is like ſome of your Welch tricks, but I hope to be cunning enough for you. Then getting out of bed, he put a billet in his ſtead, and hid himſelf in a corner of the room, and in the dead time of the night, the Welch Giant came with his great knotty club, and ſtruck ſeveral heavy blows upon the bed where Jack laid the billet, and then returned to 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 gave me two or three ſlaps with her tail. Soon after, the Giant roſe and went to breakfaſt with a bowl of haſty pudding, containing near four gallons, giving Jack 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 knife, he ripped open the bag, which the Giant ſuppoſed to be his belly, when out came the haſty pudding, at which the Giant cried out, Cots plut, hur can do dat trick hurſelf. Then taking his ſharp knife, he ripped up his belly, from the bottom to the top, and out dropped the tripes and trolly bags, ſo that hur fell down dead, Thus Jack outwitted the Giant, and proceeded on his journey.

How King Arthur's Son, going to ſeckſeek [sic] his fortune, met with Jack, &c.

ING 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 in the principally of Wales, where a beautiful Lady lived, whom he