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17 the garden, and you shall soon behold the giant's defeat and death." To this they all agreed, and heartily wished him success in his dangerous attempt.

The knight's house stood in the middle of a moat, thirty feet deep and twenty wide, over which lay a drawbridge. Jack set men to work to cut the bridge on both sides, almost to the middle; and then dressed himself in his coat of darkness, and went against the giant with his sword of sharpness. As soon as he came close to him, though the giant could not see him for his invisible coat, yet he found some danger was near which made him cry out,

"Fa, fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an English man; Let him be alive, or let him be dead, I'll grind his bones to make me bread."

"Say you so, my friend?" said Jack, "you are a monstrous miller indeed." "Art thou," cried the giant, "the villain who killed my kinsmen? then I will tear thee with my teeth, and grind thy bones to powder." "You must catch me first," said Jack; and, throwing off his coat of darkness, and putting on his shoes of swiftness, he began to run; the giant following him like a walking castle, making the ground shake at every step. Jack led him round and round the walls of the house, that the company might see the monster; and, to finish the work, Jack ran over the drawbridge, the giant going after him with his club. But when the giant came to the middle, where the bridge had been cut on both sides, the great weight of his body made it break, and he tumbled into the water, and rolled about like a large whale.

Jack now stood by the side of the moat, and