The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 115
it please you to favor me,I do not doubt but speedily to rid your realm ofthese giants and monsters in human shape. Now, when the king heard this offer, and beganto think of the cruel deeds of these bloodthirstygiants and savage monsters, he gave Jack every-thing proper for such a journey. After… … JACK THE GIANT-KILLER. 93 He went along over hills and mountains; and onthe third day he came to a wide forest, when, on asudden, he heard dreadful shrieks and cries; and,forcing his way through the trees, saw a monstrousgiant dragging along, by the hair of their heads, avorthy knight and his…
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