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 that “his bones would enlarge the number he saw.” This said, he bro't him into a large parlor, where he beheld the bloody quarters of some that were lately slain, and in the next room were hearts and livers, when the Giant to terrify Jack, told him, “that men’s hearts and livers were the choicest of his diet, for he commonly, as he said, eat them with pepper and vinegar; adding, that he did not question but his heart would make him a dainty bit.” This said, he locks up poor Jack in an upper room, leaving him there, while he went to fetch another Giant, living in the same wood, that he might be partaker of the pleasure which they would have in the destruction of poor Jack.

Now, while he was gone, dreadful shrieks and cries affrighted Jack, especially a voice which continually cried,

This dreadful noise so alarm’d poor Jack that he was like to run distracted,