o pierce, ran his horn into the tree where it stuck fast.

Then the little tailor came forth and tied the rope around the
unicorn's neck, and dug out the horn with his hatchet, and dragged the
unicorn to the King.

"What's the next thing?" said the little tailor.

"Well, there is only one thing more. There are two giants who are
destroying everybody they meet. Get rid of them, and my daughter and
the half of my kingdom shall be yours."

Then the little tailor went to seek the giants and found them sleeping
under some trees in the woods. He filled his box with stones, climbed
up a tree overlooking the giants, and when he had hidden himself in
the branches he threw a stone at the chest of one of the giants who
woke up and said to his brother giant, "What are you doing there?"

And the other giant woke up and said, "I have done nothing."

"Well, don't do it again," said the other giant, and laid down to
sleep again.

Then the tailor threw a stone at the other giant and hit him a whack
on the chin. That giant rose up and said to his fellow giant, "What do
you do that for?"

"Do what?"

"Hit me on the chin."

"I didn't."

"You did."

"I didn't."

"You did."

"Well, take that for not doing it."

And with that the other giant hit him a rousing blow on the head. With
that they commenced fighting and tore up the trees and hit one another
till at last one of them was killed, and the other one was so badly
injured that the tailor had no difficulty in killing him with his
hatchet.

Then he went back to the King and said: "I have got rid of your
giants for you; send your men and bury them in the forest. They tore
up the trees and tried to kill me with them but I was too much for
them. Now for the Princess."

Well, the King had nothing more to say, and gave him his daughter in
marriage and half the kingdom to rule.

But shortly after they were married the Princess heard the tailor
saying in his sleep: "Fix that button better; baste that side gore;
don't drop your stitches like that."

And then she knew she had married a tailor. And she went to her father
weeping bitterly and complained.

"Well, my dear," he said, "I promised, and he certainly showed himself
a great hero. But I will try and get rid of him for you. To-night I
will send into your bedroom a number of soldiers that shall slay him
even if he can kill a dozen at a blow."

So that night the little tailor noticed there was something wrong and
he