Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0237
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- (continued from previous page)and helped him. The mowed them down like corn. When they ad them nearly all killed the giant saw Jack and he mowing them down with his dagger. He took him up on his hand carried him home.
When he got home he found his poor mother crying again because she said Jack had disappeared and she couldn't find him, and she was afraid he'd kill her
"Oh he has not disappeared", says the giant because I have him here; and he is the best child I ever saw in my life. He sauved my life to-day. Only for him I would be killed."
"I'm no child," says Jack, "all determined I'm a man."
"What?" says the giant. "You a man? Have you a wife?"
"Well, I haven't," says Jack, "but I was going to be married to a beautiful girl the other day and an ould man in the tree in the giants' lawn, where I killed the three of them come down and ran away with her on me(continues on next page)
