has he destroyed in his time.

Giant Blow grinds a great deal of corn, and has a method of his own for
cooling the earth in hot weather. Common report says that, on some
occasions, he has removed the plague; and no physician on the earth has
effected such extraordinary cures as he has done. If every one that he
has kept in health were to give him a fee, of all doctors in the world
he would be the richest.

Giant Blow is well known in the West Indies, where he has, at different
times, made great confusion. When once his loud voice is heard, a
general terror and consternation are spread around; for it is well known
that, in his passions, he spares neither friend nor foe. With his great
strength he lays about him in all directions, stripping the trees of
their foliage, and furiously tearing them up by the roots, flinging the
roofs of the houses in the air, and battering down the walls on the
heads of those who dwell in them. On he goes, till loud cries of
distress are heard, and heaps of rubbish and rafters, and the dead
bodies of men, women, and children, lie mingled together in confusion on
the ground.

You have not, from what I have told you, I dare say, formed the highest
opinion of Flare, Roar, and Blow; and I fear that the characters of
Giants Bounce and Rush will be very far from perfect in your estimation.
You shall have, however, the best account of them that I can give you,
and then you will be able to judge more correctly.

Giant Bounce, of all the family of the giants, is certainly the most
peppery in his temper. His brothers usually give some notice of their
outbreaks, and rise in their position by degrees; not so Giant Bounce:
at one moment he is quiet as a lamb, and at the next much fiercer than
a lion.

In complexion, he is much darker than the others; indeed he has an ugly,
grim, and very forbidding appearance, which well suits his disposition.
He is the friend of duelists and highwaymen, and this of itself would be
bad enough, if I had nothing else to bring against him. He has done some
good, certainly, in his day; but take him for all in all, it might have
been well if his friend the monk, who first introduced him into
society, had been otherwise employed.

You would hardly think, from the kind way in which he amuses children,
by making them squibs and crackers, and other fireworks, that he was
half so mischievous as he is; but as I have told you the truth about his
brothers, so will I tell you th