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comfortably. The tailor went up to him courageously, and
addressing him, said, “ Good day, comrade; truly, you are
sitting there as if you beheld the whole distant world. I am

ou the way thither, too, to try my luck. Have you a mmd to
go with me?11 The giant, after regarding the tailor contemp­
tuously, replied, 4< You ragamuffin, you miserable little fellow"
— “ That may be,1' answered the tailoT ; £< but here you may'
read what sort of a man 1 am f and, unbuttoning1 hig coat, lie
showed the giant his belt. The giant read “ Seven at one
blow/' and thinking they were men whom the tailor Lad killed*
he acquired a little respect for him, but wished to prow
him first, and taking up a stone with his hand, he pressed it
hard between them until water dropped out of it. iL Do that
after me,'’ said the grant, “ if you have any strength."— * Is it
nothing but that/1 said the tailor; u that is play to me/' and