“ Soon after, the Giant arose, and went to breakfast, with a bowl of hasty-pudding containing near four gallons, giving Jack the like quantity; who being loath to let the Giant know he could not eat with him, got a large leathern bag, putting it very artfully under his loose coat, into which he secretly conveyed his pudding, telling the Giant, he could shew him a trick: then taking a large knife, he ripped open the bag, which the Giant supposed it to be his belly, and out came the hasty pudding. ”

“ Why, quoth Jack, I desire nothing but the old coat and cap, together with the old rusty sword and slippers, which are at your bed head. Quoth the Giant thou shalt have them and pray keep them for my sake, for they are things of excellent use. The cap will furnish you with knowledge; the sword cut asunder whatever you strike; and the shoes are of extraordinary swiftness:- these may be serviceable to you, and therefore take them with all my heart.- Jack takes them, thanking his uncle, and follows his master.
CHAP. VII.
How Jack saved his Master's life ”

“ In the reign of King Arthur, near the land’s end of England, namely, the county of Cornwall, there lived a wealthy farmer who had one only son, commonly known by the name of Jack the Giant killer. He was brisk and of a lively ready wit ”

“ For the people at his approach would forsake their habitations; then he would seize on their cows and oxen, of which he’d think little of carrying over on his back half a dozen at a time; and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round his waist like a buneh of bandeliers. ”

“ KING Arthur’s son only desired of his father to furnish him with a certain sum of money, that he might go and seek his fortune, in the principality of Wales, where a beautiful lady lived, whom he heard was possessed with several evil spirits ”