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to do, but runs his sword up to the hilt in the Giant’s fundament, where he left it sticking for a while, and stood himself laughing, to see the Giant caper and dance with the sword in his arse, crying out, He should die, with the grippingof his guts. Thus did the Giant continue raving for an hour or more, and at length fell down dead.
This being done. Jack cut off both the Giants’ heads, and sent them to King Arthur by a waggoner, whom he hired for the purpose
Jack having dispatched these two monsters, resolved to enter the cave in search of the Giant’s treasure : he passed through many turnings and windings, which led him at length to a room paved with free stone, at the upper end of which was a boiling caldron ; on the right hand stood a large table, where the Giants used to dine, then he came to an iron gate, where was a window secured with bars of iron, through which he looked, and beheld a vast many captives, who seeing Jack, said, young man art thou come to be one among us in this miserable den ? Ay, quoth Jack, I hope I shall not tarry long here ; but what is the meaning af your captivity ? Why, said one of them, we have been taken by the Giants, and here we are kept till they have a feast, then the fattest among us is slaughtered for their devouring jaws : it is not long since they took three of us for the purpose ; Say you so quoth Jack, well I have given them both such a
