dangers he would run, for, obedient to the instruc-
tions of the fairy, he had told her nothing of the
ogre that lusted after human flesh, and of his con-
cealment in the oven.

Knowing that the giant’s wife would not again
willingly admit and harbour him, he thought it
necessary on this occasion to totally disguise him-
self. Accordingly with walnut he dyed his hands
and face black, and put on the new suit which had
been purchased out of the moriéy brought by the
sale of the golden eggs.

Very early one morning he started, and climbed
the bean stalk. He was greatly fatizued when he
reached the top, and very hungry. Having rested
for some time on the Stones, he pursued his journey
to the ogre’s castle. He reached it late in the
evening ; and he found the woman standing at the
door as before.

Jack accosted her, and begged that she would
give him a night's lodging and something to eat.
She replied that the giant, her husband, ate human
flesh in preference to all other meat; that on one
occasion she had taken in and hidden a beggar
boy, who had run away carrying off something that
her husband prized greatly. Jack tried hard to
persuade the woman to receive him, but he found
it a hard task.

At length she yielded, and took him into the
kitchen, where she gave him something to eat and
drink, and then concealed him in the clothes-hutch.
Presently the ogre entered, with his nose in the
air, shouting: ‘Ha! Ha! I smell fresh meat.’

His wife replied that a kid had been killed that
day, and this kid he doubtless scented.

Then she hastened to produce his supper, for
which he was very impatient, and constantly up-
braided her with the loss of his hen.

The giant at last, having satisfied his voracious
appetite, said to his wife: ‘Bring me the money-