Then searching the giant's coffers, he shared the gold and silver
equally amongst them and took them to a neighboring castle, where they
all feasted and made merry over their deliverance.
But in the midst of all this mirth a messenger brought news that
Thunderdell, a giant with two heads, having heard of the death of his
kinsman, had come from the northern dales to be revenged on Jack, and
was within a mile of the castle, the country people flying before him
like chaff. But Jack was not a bit daunted, and said, "Let him come! I
have a tool to quiet him; and you, ladies and gentlemen, walk out into
the garden, and you shall witness this giant Thunderdell's death and
destruction."
The castle was situated in the midst of a small island surrounded by
a moat thirty feet deep and twenty feet wide, over which lay a
drawbridge. So Jack employed men to cut through this bridge on
both sides, nearly to the middle; and then, dressing himself in
his invisible coat, he marched against the giant with his sword
of sharpness. Although the giant could not see Jack, he smelt his
approach, and cried out in these words:
"Fee, fi, fo, fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishman!
Be he alive or be he dead,
I'll grind his bones to make me bread!"
"Say'st thou so," said Jack; "then thou art a monstrous miller
indeed.
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