s a monstrous giant, with but
one eye on his forehead, who lives on human flesh. He brought me this
child," says she, "I do not know where he got it, and ordered me to
make it into a pie, and I cannot help crying at the command."

'I told her that if she knew of any place convenient that I could leave
the child safely I would do it, rather than it should be killed by such
a monster.

'She told me of a house a distance off where I would get a woman who
would take care of it. "But what will I do in regard of the pie?"

'"Cut a finger off it," said I, "and I will bring you in a young
wild pig out of the forest, which you may dress as if it was the child,
and put the finger in a certain place, that if the giant doubts anything
about it you may know where to turn it over at the first, and when he
sees it he will be fully satisfied that the pie is made of the child."

'She agreed to the scheme I proposed, and, cutting off the child's
finger, by her direction I soon had it at the house she told me of, and
brought her the little pig in the place of it. She then made ready the
pie, and after eating and drinking heartily myself, I was just taking my
leave of the young woman when we observed the giant coming through the
castle gates.

'"Bless me," said she, "what will you do now? Run away and lie down
among the dead bodies that he has in the room (showing me the place),
and strip off your clothes that he may not know you from the rest if he
has occasion to go that way."

'I took her advice, and laid myself down among the rest, as if dead, to
see how he would behave. The first thing I heard was him calling for his
pie. When she set it down before him he swore it smelled like swine's
flesh, but knowing where to find the finger, she immediately turned it
up, which fairly convinced him of the contrary. The pie only served to
sharpen his appetite, and I heard him sharpening his knife and saying he
must have a collop or two, for he was not near satisfied. But what was
my terror when I heard the giant groping among the bodies, and, fancying
myself, cut the half of my hip off, and took it with him to be roasted.
You may be certain I was in great pain, but the fear of being killed
prevented me from making any complaint. However, when he had eaten all
he began to drink hot liquors in great abundance, so that in a short
time he could not hold up his head, but threw himself on a large creel
he had made for the purpose, and fell fast asl