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Sayest thou so, quoth Jack, then thou art a monstrous miller. But how if I serve thee as I did the two Giants of late, I should spoil your practice for the future. At which time the Giant spoke with a voice as loud as thunder ; art thou that villain which destroyed my kinsmen : Then I will tear thee with my teeth, and suck thy blood, I will grind thy bones to powder. Catch me first, quoth Jack, and he threw off his Coat of darkness that the Giant might see him, and then ran from him as through fear. The Giant with glaring eyes, following after like a walking castle, making the earth to shake at every step, Jack led him a dance three or four times round the moat, that the ladies and gentlemen might take a full view of this huge monster who followed Jack, but could not overtake him by reason of his Shoes of swiftness. At length Jack, took over the bridge, the Giant with full speed pursuing after him, with his iron club but coming to the middle of the draw-bridge, the weight of his body, and the most dreadful steps which he took, it broke down, and he tumbled into the water, where he rolled and wallowed like a whale. Jack standing at the side of the moat laughed at the Giant, and said, you would grind my bones to powder ; you have water pray where is your mill ? The Giant foamed to hear him scoffing at that rate, though he plunged from place to place in the moat. Jack a length got a cart rope, and cast it over the Giant’s two heads, with a
