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GIANT DESPAIR

OW I saw in my dream that not far from the place where the pilgrims lay, there was a castle called Doubting Castle. The owner of that castle was Giant Despair, and it was on his grounds that Christian and Hopeful were now sleeping.

This giant, getting up in the morning early, went out to walk in his fields; and there he beheld the two men asleep, being overwearied with struggling in the storm. He beat with his club upon the ground, and called out to them in a grim and surly voice:

"Wake up there, you! Get up, I say!"

In much alarm, and scarcely knowing where they were, they sprang to their feet and looked him in the face.

"Who are you? And why are you here, trespassing on my grounds?" he gruffly asked. 97