teth the Feast]

But, lo! to the midst, a herald, pale and breathless with haste and
terror, rushed in, and told the company, that Thundel, a Giant with an
immense head, having heard of the death of his two kinsmen, was come
to take revenge on Jack, and that he was now near the house, and the
country-people all flying before him.

At this dismal news, the very boldest of the guests trembled; but Jack
drew his sword, and said, "Let him come; I have a tool to pick his
teeth with. Pray, ladies and gentlemen, walk into the garden, and you
shall joyfully behold the Giant's defeat and death."

The knight's castle was surrounded by a moat, thirty feet deep and
twenty wide, over which lay a drawbridge. Jack set men to work, to cut
the bridge on both sides, near the middle; and then dressing himself
in his invisible coat, went against the Giant with his sword of
sharpness. As he came close to him, though the Giant could not see
him, yet he cried out,--

"_Fie! foh! fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishman;
Be he alive or be he dead,
I'll grind his bones to make my bread._"

"Say you so, my friend?" said Jack; "you are a clever miller indeed!"

"Art thou," cried the Giant, "the villain who killed my kinsmen? Then
I will tear thee with my teeth, and grind thy bones to powder."

"You must catch me first," said Jack; and throwing off his invisible
coat, he put on his shoes of swiftness, and began to run; the Giant
following him like a walking castle, making the earth shake at every
step.

[Illustration: The Stratagem of Jack with the Giant Thundel]

Jack led him round and round the walls of the castle, that the company
might see the monster; and to finish the work. Jack ran over the
drawbridge, the Giant going after him with his club: but when the
Giant came to the middle, where the bridge had been cut on both sides,
the great weight of his body made it break, and he tumbled into the
water, where he rolled about like a large whale. Jack now stood by the
side of the moat, and laughed and jeered at him, saying,

"I think you told me you would grind my bones to powder; when will you
begin?"

[Illustration: Jack maketh sport of Him,
and draggeth Him out of the Moat]

[Illustration: Jack maketh sport of Him,
and draggeth Him out of the Moat]

The Giant foamed horridly at the mouth with fury, and plunged from
side to side of the moat; but he could not get out to have reveng