200 PRINCE RICARDO.

 

could not carry away the other articles. Dick
was rescued, that was all, and the Princess
Jaqueline had sacrificed herself to her love
for him.

The Giant picked himself up and pulled
himself together, as we said, and then ap-
proached Jaqueline in a very civil way, for a
person of his breeding, head in hand.

“Let me introduce myself,’ he said, and
mentioned his name and titles. ‘‘ May I ask
what you are doing here, and how you
came?”

Poor Jaqueline threw herself at his feet, and
murmured a short and not very intelligible
account of herself.

‘““T don’t understand,” said the Giant, re-
placing his head on his shoulders. ‘ What to
do with you, I’m sure I don’t know. ‘ Please
don’t eat me,’ did you say? Why, what do you
take me for? I’m not in that lineat all; low, I
call it !”’

Jaqueline was somewhat comforted at these
words, dropped out of the Giant’s lips from a
considerable height.

** But they call you ‘The Giant who does not
Know whenhe has had Enough,’”’ said Jaqueline.

‘And proud of the title : not enough of fight-
ing. Of punishment I ama glutton, or so my
friends are pleased to say. A brace of oxen, a
drove of sheep or two, are enough for me,”
the Giant went on complacently, but forgetting