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1. Jack and the Three Giants (continued)

   

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   the same.
   Then Jack took a knife and ripped the sack open and all he had eaten fell on the floor.
   Jack said he was better and able to run like a hair.
   He told the giant to do the same and the giant did so and dropped dead at Jack's feet

   Now this giant's mother was alive and when she saw that Jack was the means of killing her three sons she said she would kill him.
   She put on a big pot of lead to boil and you would have to get up on a big stool to look into the pot it was that high up.

   She told Jack to get up on the stool to see when it would be boiling. When it would boil he was to tell her and she made up her mind that when Jack would say it was boiling she would put him up on the stool to make sure it was boiling and then she would throw him into and he would be burned.
   She went into another room waiting for it to boil
   Jack knew that it was a plan to kill him.
   She asked him was it boiling and Jack said it wasn't.
   She got tired waiting for it to boil and she went and got up on the stool to

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   History Edit

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Brady Meenaghan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Patrick Brady Meenaghan

   Gender

   Male