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came roaring towards Jack, crying out, You incorrigible villain! are you come here to disturb my rest; you shall dearly pay for it; I satisfaction I will have, and it shall be this; I will take you whole and broil you for my breakfast. Which words were no sooner out of his mouth, but he tumbled head long into this deep pit, whose heavy fall made the very foundation of the Molunt to shake.
Oh! Giant, quoth Jack, where are you now? faith you are gotten into Lob’s pond, where I will plague you for your threatening words What do you think now of broiling me for your breakfast? will no other diet serve but poor Jack. Thus having tantalized the Giant for a while, he gave him a most weighty knock upon the crown of the head with his pick ax, that he immediately tumbled down, and giving a most dreadful groan, died. This done, Jack threw the earth in upon him, and so buried him? then going and searching the cave, he found a great quantity of treature.
