Among the guests then present were five aged gentlemen, who were fathers to some of those captives who had been freed by Jack from the dungeon of the giants.  As soon as they heard that he was the person who had done such wonders, they pressed round him with tears of joy, to return him thanks for the happiness he had caused to them.  After this the bowl went round, and every one drank to the health and long life of the gallant hero.  Mirth increased, and the hall was filled with peals of laughter and joyful cries.  But, on a sudden, a herald, pale and breathless with haste and terror, rushed into the midst of the company, and told them that Thundel, a savage giant with two heads, had heard of the death of his two kinsmen, and was come to take his revenge on Jack; and that he was now within a mile of the house; the people flying before him like chaff before the wind.  At this news the very boldest of the guests trembled; but Jack drew his sword, and said:  “Let him come, I have a rod for him also.  Pray, ladies and gentlemen, do me the favour to walk into the garden, and you shall soon behold the giant’s defeat and death.”  To this they all agreed, and heartily wished him success in his dangerous attempt.  The knight’s house stood in the middle of a moat, thirty feet deep and twenty wide, over which lay a drawbridge.  Jack set men to work to cut the bridge on both sides, almost to the middle; and then dressed himself in his coat of darkness, and went against the giant with his sword of sharpness.  As he came close to him, though the giant could not see him, for his invisible coat, yet he found some danger was near, which made him cry out: 

  “Fa, fe, fi, fo, fum,
   I smell the blood of an Englishman;
   Let him be alive, or let him be dead,
   I’ll grind his bones to make me bread.”

“Say you so my friend?” said Jack, “you are a monstrous miller indeed.”  “Art thou,” cried the giant, “the villain that killed my kinsmen?  Then I will tear thee with my teeth, and grind thy bones to powder.”  “You must catch me first,” said Jack; and throwing off his coat of darkness, and putting on his shoes of swiftness, he began to run; the giant following him like a walking castle, making the earth shake at every step.

Jack led him round and round the walls of the house, that the company might see the monster; and to finish the work Jack ran over the drawbridge, the giant going after him with his club.  But when the giant came to the middle, where the bridge had been cut on both sides, the great weight of his body made it break, and he tumbled into the water, and rolled about like a large whale.  Jack now stood by the side of the moat, and laughed and jeered at him, saying:  “I think you told me, you would grind my bones to powder.  When will you begin?” The giant foamed at both his horrid mouths with fury, and plunged from side to side of the moat; but he could not get out to have revenge on his little foe.  At last Jack ordered