the sun on his back and in the Giant's face. To it they went, the
Giant aiming a blow with his club that would have felled an elephant.

Dick dodged, and cut off the Giant's feet at the ankles.

"First blood for the prince!" said the Giant, coming up smiling. "Half-
minute time!"

He occupied the half-minute in placing the feet neatly beside each other,
as if they had been a pair of boots.

_Round II._--The Giant sparring for wind, Ricardo cuts him in two at the
waist.

The Giant folded his legs up neatly, like a pair of trousers, and laid
them down on a rock. He had now some difficulty in getting rapidly over
the ground, and stood mainly on the defensive, and on his waist.

_Round III._--Dick bisects the Giant. Both sides now attack him on
either hand, and the feet kick him severely.

"No kicking!" said Dick.

"Nonsense; all fair in war!" said the Giant.

But do not let us pursue this sanguinary encounter in all its _horrible
details_.

Let us also remember--otherwise the scene would be too painful for an
elegant mind to contemplate with entertainment--that the Giant was in
excellent training, and thought no more of a few wounds than you do of a
crack on the leg from a cricket-ball. He well deserved the title given
him by the Fancy, of "The Giant who does not Know when he has had
Enough."

* * * * *

The contest was over; Dick was resting on a rock. The lists were strewn
with interesting but imperfect fragments of the Giant, when a set of
double teeth of enormous size flew up out of the ground and caught
Ricardo by the throat! In vain he strove to separate the teeth, when the
crow, stooping from the heavens, became the Princess Jaqueline, and
changed Dick into a wren--a tiny bird, so small that he easily flew out
of the jaws of the Giant and winged his way to a tree, whence he watched
the scene.

But the poor Princess Jaqueline!

To perform the feat of changing Dick into a bird she had, of course,
according to all the laws of magic, to resume her own natural form!

There she stood, a beautiful, trembling maiden, her hands crossed on her
bosom, entirely at the mercy of the Giant!

No sooner had Dick escaped than the monster began to _collect himself_;
and before Jaqueline could muster strength to run away or summon to her
aid the lessons of the Fairy Paribanou, the Giant who never Knew when he
had Enough was himself again. A boy might have climbed up a tree (for
giants are no tree-climbers,