He then blew his horn so loudly that the giant awoke and came out of his den crying out: "You saucy villain! you shall pay for this I'll broil you for my breakfast!" He covered the top over so as to make it look like solid ground. ![]() There he dug a pit twenty-two feet deep and twenty broad. Jack took a horn, a shovel, a pickaxe, his armor, and a dark lantern, and one winter's evening he went to the mount. The giant had done this for many years when Jack resolved to destroy him. He dwelt in a gloomy cavern on the top of the mountain, and used to wade over to the mainland in search of prey when he would throw half a dozen oxen upon his back, and tie three times as many sheep and hogs round his waist, and march back to his own abode. ![]() Michael's Mount, off Cornwall, a huge giant, eighteen feet high and nine feet round his fierce and savage looks were the terror of all who beheld him. In the reign of the famous King Arthur there lived in Cornwall a lad named Jack, who was a boy of a bold temper, and took delight in hearing or reading of conjurers, giants, and fairies and used to listen eagerly to the deeds of the knights of King Arthur's Round Table. ![]() The History of Jack the Giant-Killer Fairy tale by Andrew Lang
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