Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0209
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- (continued from previous page)off with the cows to his master's farm. The cows were let in on the farm and then in on the giant's land, and Jack went in after them. And scarcely had he done so when the ground shook under him with the terrible roaring, and lo! Jack saw tearing down the lawn an enormous, mortial giant, with three heads on him.
"Well," said Jack, "I'm doomed to-day anyhow. God bless us!" But he thought of his little dagger, and took it out of his pocket.
"Ho! Ho! Jack the giant killer", said the giant, "you killed my two brothers and I'll kill you now."
"If you do", says Jack, "you will have to earn it" going for the giant and cutting off wan of his heads with the first blow. The giant fell, and before he recovered Jack cut off another head. The giant begged for mercy and told him he would forgive him for killing his two brothers, and that he would give him the keys of his treasure and a milk-white mare into the bargain.
The giant handed over the keys to Jack and then Jack finished him by cutting off(continues on next page)
