46 TOM HICKATHRIFT.

 

MIKEY
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highly, incensed the giant, who immedi-

ately ran to his cave for his club, intend-
ing to dash out Tom’s brains at one
blow. Tom was now much distressed
for a weapon, as by some chance he had
forgot one, and he began to reflect how
very little his whip would help him
against a monster twelve feet in height

and six feet round the waist. But while