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7 CHAP. III.

ACK having undertaken his task, he furnishes himself with a horn, spade and pick-ax, and over to the Mount he goes, in the beginning of a dark winter evening, where he fell to work, and before morning had digged a pit two and twenty feet deep, and almost as broad, and covered the same over with long sticks and straw; then strewing a little of the mould upon it, it appeared like plain ground.

This done, Jack places himself on the contrary side of the pit, just about the dawning of the day, when putting his horn to his mouth, he then blew Tan-Twivie, Tan-Twivie. This unexpected noise roused the Giant, who