o do anything else. Well, he left good-luck behind
him and he took good-luck with him and he started off on his
journey with the cake, the crutch and the cure. He followed
the Giant's tracks until they came down to the sea. Into the
sea he flung his grandmother's crutch. It became a boat with
masts and sails. He jumped into the boat, and the things that
had to be done in a boat were done by him--

He hoisted the sails--the red sail, the black sail and the
speckled sail,
He gave her prow to the sea and her stern to the land,
The blue sea was flashing,
The green sea was lashing,
But on they went with a breeze that he himself would have chosen,
And the little creatures of the sea sat up on their tails to
watch his going.

and so he went until he came near the Green Island where
Shamble-shanks the Giant who had carried off the three teeth
of the King of Ireland had his Castle and his stronghold.

He fastened his boat where a boat should be fastened and he
went through the Island until he came to a high grey Castle.
No one was about it and he went through it, gate, court and
hall. He found a chamber where a fire burned on the
hearth-stone. He went to the fire gladly. He looked around
the chamber and he saw three beds. "There's room to rest
myself here, at all events," said Feet-in-the-Ashes.

Night came on and he left the fire and got into a bed. He
pulled one of the soft skins over him. Just as he was going
to turn on his side to sleep three youths came into the
chamber. Feet-in-the-Ashes sat up on the bed to look at them.

When they saw him they began to moan and groan and when he
looked them over he saw they were all covered with
wounds--with spear-thrusts and with sword-cuts. The sight of
him in the bed, more than their wounds, made them moan and
groan, and when he asked them why this was so the first of
the three youths said:--

"We came here, the three of us, to fight the Giant
Shamble-shanks and to take from this Island the Stone of
Victory. We came to this Castle yesterday and we made three
beds in this chamber so that after the combat we might rest
ourselves and be healed so that we might be able to fight the
Giant again to-morrow or the day after, for we know that we
cannot win victory over him until many com