The History of Jack the Giant-Killer (4)

The History of Jack the giant-Killer (4)

  Jack, perceiving in one corner of the room a strong ccord, took courage, and making a slip-knot at each end, he threw them over their heads, and tied it to the window bars ; he then pulled till he had choked them.

  When they were black in the face he slid down the rope and stabbed them to the heart.

  Jack next took a great bunch of keys from the pocket of Blunerbore, and went into the castle again.

  He made a search through all the rooms, and in one of them found four ladies tied up by the hair of their heads, and almost starved to death.

  They told him that their husbands had been killed by the evil Giant, who had then condemned them to bestarved to death,they would not eat the fresh of their own dead husbands.

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