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The Trick of the Pudding.
to make the Giant believe that he could eat as much as himself, so he contrived to button a leathern bag inside his coat, and slipped the pudding into the bag instead of his mouth.
When breakfast was over, he said to the Giant, "I will shew you a fine trick: I could cut my head off one minute, and put it on sound the next. But see here!"
He then took a knife, ripped up the bag, and all the pudding fell on the floor.
"Odds splutter hur nails," cried the Giant, who was ashamed to be outdone by Jack, "hur can do that hurself!"
So he snatched up the knife, plunged it into his stomach, and in a moment dropped down dead.
Jack having thus outwitted the monster, went further on his journey.
