them unmolested. On the castle gate hung a JACK THE

golden trumpet, and under it was written these
lines—

“Whoever can this trumpet blow
Will cause the giant’s overthrow.’

As soon as Jack had read this he seized the
trumpet, and blew such a shrill blast, that the
gates burst open, and the walls of the castle
trembled.

The giant and magician now knew that their evil
course was at an end, and they stood biting their
thumbs and shaking with fear.

Jack, with his sword of sharpness, soon killed
the giant, but it was a less easy matter to subdue
the magician, for he turned himself into various
shapes.

Jack did not know what had become of him, and
till the magician was overcome, those who had
been transformed by him could not be released.
But he put on his cap of wisdom, and at once dis-
covered that the magician had changed himself
into a little ant that was creeping away between
his feet. He immediately raised his foot to stamp
on him, when the magician became a hare and fled
like an arrow. Jack put on his shoes of swiftness
and went after him, when all at once the magician
changed into a knot of thread. Jack knew him,
because he had on his cap of wisdom, so with
his sword of sharpness, he cut the knot, and the
magician was dead.

Then all the knights and ladies who had been
transformed into noxious birds resumed their
proper forms, as did also the duke’s daughter, who
thanked Jack on her knees for her deliverance.
The head of the giant Galligant was sent to King
Arthur, who invited Jack to his court, made him
knight of the Round Table, and gave him to wife
the daughter of the duke whom he had delivered.

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