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beard were as thick rods of iron wire; and his locks of hair hung down like curling snakes. Jack alighted from his horse, and turned him into a thicket; then he put on his invisible coat, and drew a little nearer, to behold this figure; and said softly, "O monster, are you there! it will not be long before I shall take you fast by the beard."
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The Giant, all this while, could not see him, by reason of his invisible coat: then Jack came quite close to him, and