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THE GIANT KILLER.
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The parson replied, God made them, child. You are out again, quoth Jack, for God made them bulls, but my father and his man Hobson made oxen of them. The parson finding himself fool’d trudged away, leaving Jack in a fit of laughter.
CHAP. II.
How a Giant inhabited the Mount of Cornwall, and of the great spoil which he made in the neighbouring lands.
IN those days the Mount of Cornwall was kept by a huge and monstrous Giant, of eighteen feet in height, and about three yards in compass, of a fierce and grim countenance, the terror of all the neighbouring towns and villages: his habitation was in a cave, in the midst of all the mount, neither would he suffer any living creature to inhabit near him. His feeding was upon other
