ailor: "If what you've got there is true, we
may well be comrades. But let's see if you can do what I can do."

And he bent down in the road and took up a large stone and pressed it
with his hand till it all crushed up and water commenced to pour out
from it.

"Can you do that?" said the giant.

The tailor also bent down in the road, but took out from his wallet
the piece of cheese and pretended to pick it up.

When he took it in his hand he pressed and pressed till the cream
poured forth from it.

The giant said: "Well, you can do that fairly well. Let's see if you
can throw."

He took another stone and threw it till it went right across the river
by which they were standing.

So the little tailor took his blackbird in his hand and pretended to
throw it, and of course when it felt itself in the air it flew away
and disappeared.

The giant said: "That wasn't a bad throw. You may as well come home
and stop with us giants, and we'll do great things together."

As they went along the giant said: "We want some twigs for our night
fires. You may as well help me carry some home." And he pointed to a
tree that had fallen by the wayside and said: "Help me carry that,
will you?"

So the tailor said, "Why certainly," and went to the top of the tree,
and said: "I'll carry these branches which are the heavier; you carry
the trunk which has no branches."

And when the giant got the trunk on his shoulders the tailor seated
himself on one of the branches and let the giant carry him along.

After a time the giant got tired and said: "Ho there, wait a minute,
I'm going to drop the tree and rest awhile."

So the tailor jumped down and caught the tree around the branches
again and said: "Well, you are easily tired."

At last they got to the giant's castle and there the giant spoke to
his brothers and told them what a brave and powerful fellow this
little tailor was. They spoke together and determined to get rid of
him lest he might do them some harm. But they determined to kill him
in the night because he was so strong and might kill twelve of them at
a blow.

But the tailor saw them whispering together, and guessing that
something was wrong went out into the yard and got a big bladder which
he filled with blood and put it in the bed which the giants pointed
out to him.

Then he crept under it, and during the night they brought their big
clubs and hit the bed over and over again till the blood spurted out
onto their