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10)HISTORY OF JACK

was his fortune to light on him. This Giant kept an enchanted castle, situated in the midst of a lonesome wood. Now Jack about four months after, walking near to the borders of the said wood, in his journey towards Wales, he grew weary, and therefore sat himself down by the side of a pleasant fountain, where a dead sleep suddenly seized on him: at which the Giant coming there for water, found him, and by the lines written on his belt, knew him to be Jack that killed his brother Giant; and therefore, without making any words, he throws him upon his shoulder, for to carry him to his enchanted castle.

Now as they passed through a thicket the ruffling of the bows awakened poor Jack, who finding himself in the clutches of the Giant, was strangely surprised, yet it was but the beginning of his terror, for, entering within the first walls of the castle, he beheld the ground all covered with bones & sculls of dead men. The Giant telling Jack,