578 THE VALIANT LITTLE TATLOR.

comfortably. The tailor went up to him courageously, and
addressing him, said, “Good day, comrade; truly, you are
sitting there as if you beheld the whole distant world. Iam

 

on the way thither, too, to try my luck. Have you a mind to
go with me?” The giant, after regarding the tailor contemp-
tuously, replied, “ You ragamuffin, you miserable little fellow.”
—* That may be,” answered the tailor; “but here you may
read what sort of a man I am;” and, unbuttoning his coat, he
showed the giant his belt. The giant read “Seven at one
blow,” and thinking they were men whom the tailor had killed,
he acquired a little respect for him, but wished to prove
him first, and taking up a stone with his hand, he pressed it
hard between them until water dropped out of it. “Do that
after me,” said the giant, “if you have any strength.” —“ Is it
nothing but that,” said the tailor; “that is play to me,” and