“You impudent villain-you shall pay dearly for disturbing my rest. And then he blew his horn so loudly that the Giant awoke, and came out roaring like thunder: He covered it carefully over with sticks and straw, and strewed some earth on the top to make it look like solid ground. Then he set to work, and before morning had dug a great pit. He took a horn, a shovel, a pickaxe, and a dark lantern, and one winter’s evening swam over the sea to the Mount. The Cornish people had suffered greatly from his thefts and pillaging for he used to wade through the sea to the mainland, and carry off half a dozen or more of their oxen at a time.Īt last Jack made up his mind to destroy this monster. Michael’s Mount, which rises out of the sea near the shores of Cornwall. Now, in those days there lived a huge giant in a gloomy cavern on St. Jack was strong and brave and very daring, and was never backward when danger was in the way. IN the reign of King Arthur there lived in the County of Cornwall a worthy farmer, who had an only son, named Jack.
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