“ AFTER some time spent in triumphant mirth and pastime, Jack grew weary of riotous living, wherefore taking leave of the noblemen and ladies, he set forward in search of new adventures, meeting with nothing remarkable till at length coming to the foot of a high mountain, late at night, he knocked at the door of a lonesome house at which time an ancient man with a head as white as now. ”

“ The giant all this time could not fee him by reason of his invisible coat, so coming up close to him, valiant Jack fetching a blow at his head with his sword of sharpness, and missing somewhat of his aim, cut off the giants nose, whole nostrils were wider than a pair of jack boots, the pain was terrible, and so he put up his hand to feel for his nose, and when he could not find it, he rav'd and roar'd louder than claps of thunder, and tho' he turned up his large eyes, he could not see from whence the blow came which had done him that great disaster ”

“ At which time Jack, standing at the giant's elbow as he was stooping to take up the club, he at one blow with his sword of sharpness, cut off his head. The conjuror seeing this, soon mounted upon the air, and was carried awy by a whirl wind. Thus, was the whole enchantment broken, and every knight and lady who had been for a long time transformed into birds and beasts, returned to their proper shape again ”

“ The giant fretted and formed to hear him scoff an that rate and tho' he plunged from side to side in the moat, yet he could not get out to be revenged on his adversary. Jack at length, got a cart rope and cast it over the giant's two heads, with a slip-knot and by the help of a few horses dragged him out again, with which he was near strangled, and before he could let him loose, he cut off both his heads with his sword of sharpness, in the full view of all the worthy assembly of knights, gentlemen and ladies, who gave a joyful shout when they saw the giant fairly dispatched. ”

“ JACK having been successful in all his undertakings, resolved not to be idle for the future, but to perform what service he could for the honour of his king and country; he humbly requested of the king his royal master, to fit him with a horse and money, to travel in search of strange and new adventures; for said he, there are many giants yet alive in the remotest part of the kingdom and the dominions of Wales, to the unspeakable damage of your majesty's liege subjects ”

“ Why, said one, of them, I'll tell you we are persons that have been taken by the giants that keep this cave, and here we kept till such time as they have occasion for a particular feast, and then the fattest among us is slaughtered, and prepared for their devouring jaws; it is not long since they took three of us for the same purpose; nay many are the times they've dined on murdered men. Say you so quoth Jack, well, I have given them both such a dinner that it will be long enough ere they have occasion for any more The miserable captives were amazed at these words ”

“ Then taking the bunch of keys, he unlocked the rooms where, upon a strict search, he found three fair ladies, tied by the hair of their heads, almost starved to death, who told Jack that their husbands were slain by the giant, and that they were kept many days without food, in order to force them to feed upon the flesh of their husbands, which they could not, though they should be starved to death. ”

“ And with that, running him thro' and thro', the monster sent forth a hedious groan, and yield up his life into the hands of the valient conquerer Jack the giant-killer, while the noble knight and virtuous lady were both joyful spectators of his sudden downfal and their own deliverance. ”

“ This old man having ended his discourse Jack av him his hand with a faithful promise, at in the morning he would venture his life to break the enchantment, and free the lady, together with the rest, that were miserable partakers in her calamity. ”

“ And in testimony of the truth of what he had said; he unlocked the iron gate, setting the miserable captive at liberty, who all rejoiced like condemned male-factors at the fight of a reprive: then leading them together to the foresaid room, he placed them round the table, and set before them two quarters of beaf ”