When the darkness of the night was come, he saw the three giants arriving, and they began throwing down the court until they arrived at the place where the tailor was in hiding up above, and one of them struck a blow with his sledge on the place where he was.  The tailor threw down the stone, and it fell on him and killed him.  The other two went home then and left all of the court that was remaining without throwing it down, since their companion was dead.

The workmen came again the next day, and they were working until night, and as they were going home the tailor told them to put up the big stone on the top of the work, as it had been the night before.  They did that for him, went home, and the tailor went in hiding the same as he did the evening before.

When the people had all gone to rest, the two giants came, and they were throwing down all that was before them, but as soon as they began, the tailor commenced manoeuvring until he was able to throw down the great stone, so that it fell upon the skull of the giant that was under him, and it killed him.  After this there was only the one giant left, and he never came again until the court was finished.

Then when the work was over, the tailor went to the king and told him to give him his wife and his money, as he had the court finished; and the king said he would not give him any wife until he had killed the other giant, for he said that it was not by his strength he had killed the two giants before, and that he would give him nothing now until he killed the other one for him.  Then the tailor said that he would kill the other giant for him, and welcome; that there should be no delay at all about that.

The tailor went then till he came to the place where the other giant was, and asked did he want a servant-boy.  The giant said he did want one, if he could get one who would do everything that he would do himself.

“Anything that you will do, I will do,” said the tailor.

They went to their dinner then, and when they had eaten it, the giant asked the tailor “would he dare to swallow as much boiling broth as himself.”  The tailor said, “I will certainly do that, but you must give me an hour before we commence.”  The tailor went out then, and he got a sheepskin, which he sewed up until he made a bag of it, and he slipped it down under his coat.  He came in then and told the giant first to drink a gallon of the broth himself.  The giant drank that up while it was boiling.  “I’ll do that,” said the tailor.  He went on until it was all poured into the skin, and the giant thought he had drunk it.  The giant drank another gallon then, and the tailor let another gallon down into the skin, but the giant thought he was drinking it.

“I’ll do a thing now that you will not dare to do,” said the tailor.

“You will not,” said the giant.  “What is it you would do?”

“Make a hole and let out the broth again,” said the tailor.