JACK TEX GIAXT-KILLEB.
85
* are these your tricks I
to prove
hope
a
getting out of bed,
upon travellers match for yon."
place in the bed,
But
And
he found a large thick
of wood, which
billet
?
he
laid in
his
own
and then hid himself in a
dark corner of the room.
In the middle of the night the giant came with his great dab, and struck
blows on the bed, in the
Jack had
laid the billet;
back
his
to
broken
own room,
terrible
many
very place where
and then he went thinking
he
had
Jack's bones.
all
Early in the morning, Jack put a bold face
on the matter, and walking room, thanked him for his giant started to
into the giant's
The
lodging.
when he saw him, and began
stammer out
"
Oh,
dear
Pray how did you sleep
last
me
I
is
it
night?
you ? Did
yon hear or
see anything during the night?" Nothing worth speaking of," said Jack, " a rat, I believe, gave me three or carelessly "
;
four slaps with his little
;
but
I
tail,
and disturbed me a
soon went to sleep again."
The giant was
perfectly astonished at this