came down.  “Would you sooner be driving red-hot knives into one another’s hearts,” said the giant, “or would you sooner be fighting one another on red-hot flags?” “Fighting on red-hot flags is what I’m used to at home,” said Jack, “and your dirty feet will be sinking in them and my feet will be rising.”  So then they began the fight.  The ground that was hard they made soft, and the ground that was soft they made hard, and they made spring wells come up through the green flags.  They were like that all through the day, no one getting the upper hand of the other, and at last a little bird came and sat on the bush and said to Jack, “If you don’t make an end of him by sunset, he’ll make an end of you.”  Then Jack put out his strength, and he brought the giant down on his knees.  “Give me my life,” says the giant, “and I’ll give you the three best gifts.”  “What are those?” said Jack.  “A sword that nothing can stand against, and a suit that when you put it on, you will see everybody, and nobody will see you, and a pair of shoes that will make you ran faster than the wind blows.”  “Where are they to be found?” said Jack.  “In that red door you see there in the hill.”  So Jack went and got them out.  “Where will I try the sword?” says he.  “Try it on that ugly black stump of a tree,” says the giant.  “I see nothing blacker or uglier than your own head,” says Jack.  And with that he made one stroke, and cut off the giant’s head that it went into the air, and he caught it on the sword as it was coming down, and made two halves of it.  “It is well for you I did not join the body again,” said the head, “or you would have never been able to strike it off again.”  “I did not give you the chance of that,” said Jack.  And he brought away the great suit with him.

So he brought the cows home at evening, and every one wondered at all the milk they gave that night.  And when the king was sitting at dinner with the princess, his daughter, and the rest, he said, “I think I only hear two roars from beyond to-night in place of three.”

The next morning Jack went out again with the cows, and he saw another field full of grass, and he knocked down the wall and let the cows in.  All happened the same as the day before, but the giant that came this time had two heads, and they fought together, and the little bird came and spoke to Jack as before.  And when Jack had brought the giant down, he said, “Give me my life, and I’ll give you the best thing I have.”  “What is that?” says Jack.  “It’s a suit that you can put on, and you will see every one but no one can see you.”  “Where is it?” said Jack.  “It’s inside that little red door at the side of the hill.”  So Jack went and brought out the suit.  And then he cut off the giant’s two heads, and caught them coming down and made four halves of them.  And they said it was well for him he had not given them time to join the body.

That night when the cows came home they gave so much milk that all the vessels that could be found were filled up.