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said to the King, “Your Majesty is welcome to this castle of the
Lord Marquis of Carabas.”

“What! my Lord Marquis,” cried the King, “and does this
castle also belong to you?) There can be nothing finer than this
court, and all the stately buildings which surround it. Let us go
into it, if you please.”

The King went up first, the Marquis following, handing the
Princess. They passed into a spacious hall, where they found a
magnificent collation the ogre had prepared for his friends, who
dared not enter, knowing the King was there. His Majesty was
perfectly charmed with the good qualities of the Marquis, and
his daughter was violently in love with him. The King, after
having drunk five or six glasses, said to him,“ My Lord Marquis,
you only will be to blame if you are not my son-in-law.”

The Marquis, making several low bows, accepted the honour
His Majesty conferred upon him, and forthwith the very same
day married the Princess.

Puss became a great lord, and never ran after mice any more
but only for his diversion.

DCCC,
JACK AND THE GIANT.

[The present copy of this tale is taken, with a few necessary alterations, from tne
original editions, which differ very considerably from the modern versions ; and it is
worthy of preservation in its antique costume, for the story is undoubtedly of Teutonic
origin. ‘‘ Jack, commonly called the ‘Giant Killer,’” says Sir W. Scott, ‘‘and
Thomas Thumb landed in England from the very same keels and war-ships which con-
veyed Hengist and Horsa, and Ebba the Saxon.” One incident in the romance
exactly corresponds to a device played by the Giant Skrimner, when he and Thor
travelled to Utgard Castle, related in the Edda of Snorro. Skrimner placed an im-
mense rock on the leafy couch where Thor supposed he was sleeping ; and when the

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