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nay if there be anothernay were there twenty i would shed the last drop of blood in my body before one of them should escape my fury . when i have finished this task i will come and pay my respects to you .

alas ! young man art thou come to be one amongst us in this miserable den ?
ay i hope i shall not tarry long here but pray tell me what is the meaning of your captivity ?
why ill tell you . we are persons that have been taken by the giants that keep this cave and here we are kept till such time as they have occasion for a particular feast and then the fattest amongst us is slaughtered and prepared for their devouring jaws . it is not long since they took three for the same purpose .
say you so well i have given them both such a dinner that it will be long enough eer theyll have occasion for any more .
you may believe me for i have slain them with the point of my sword and as for their monstrous heads i sent them in a wagon to the court of king arthur as trophies of my unparalleled victory .

fe fi fo fum ! i smell the blood of an englishman be he alive or be he dead ill grind his bones to make me bread .
sayest thou so ? then thou art a monstrous miller indeed . but what if i serve thee as i did the two giants of late ? on my conscience i should spoil your practice for the future .
art thou that villain which destroyed my kinsmen ? then will i tear thee with my teeth and what is more i will grind thy bones to powder .
you will catch me first sir

father have you any entertainment for a benighted traveller that has lost his way ?
yes if you will accept of such accommodation as my poor cottage will afford thou shalt be right welcome .

finally this vessel of unknown material of unusual colour and of extraordinary form was presented to henry the elder king of the english as a valuable gift was then given to the queens brother david king of the scots and was kept for several years in the treasury of scotland . a few years ago as i have heard from good authority it was given by william king of the scots to henry the second who wished to see it .
come catch me .

i pray go to such a place and fetch me a bottle of straw i have asked him leave .
nay prithee tom go

i am come for a bottle of straw .
tom take as much as thou canst carry .
tom thy rope is too short

stand away ye fools !
now see what a man can do !
marry it is true
ay take one that thou canst carry .

sirrah who gave you authority to come this way ? do you not know i make all stand in fear of my sight and you like an impudent rogue must come and fling my gates open at your pleasure ? how dare you presume to do this ? are you so careless of your life ? i will make thee an example for all rogues under the sun . dost thou not care what thou dost ? do you see how many heads hang upon yonder tree that have offended my law ? thy head shall hang higher than all the rest for an example !
a fig for your news for you shall not find me like one of them .
no ? why ? thou art but a fool if thou comest to fight with such a one as i am and bring no weapon to defend thyself withal .
i have a weapon here will make you understand you are a traitorly rogue .
ay sirrah

what shall i deliver ?
your money sirrah
but you will give me better words for it and you must be better armed .
come come we do not come here to parley but we come for money and money we will have before we stir from this place .
ay ! is it so ? then get it and take it .

no but ill make you know before you and i part it is me .
ay ! i have been this three long years and have had no combat with any man and none durst make me an answer . i think they be all cowards in this country except it be a man who is called thomas hickathrift who killed a giant . him i would fain see to have one combat with him .
ay ! but methinks i might be master in your mouth . i am the man what have you to say to me ?
why verily i am glad we have met so happily together that we may have one single combat .
sure you do but jest ?
marry i am in earnest .
a match will you give me leave to get a twig ?
ay hang him that will fight a man unarmed . i scorn that .

our wills our law and by that alone we will be governed .
nay if it be so these trusty clubs are our weapons and by them you shall be chastised

how now rascals what would you be at ? are you indeed weary of the world that you so unadvisedly set upon one who is able to crush you in like a cucumber ?
high words no i will come to action

what a company of cripples has he made as it were in the twinkling of an eye !
yes i believe that for every drop of blood that i lost i have made the rascals pay me a limb as a just tribute .

well i would gladly take my fortune with you hoping that i may be serviceable to you upon occasion .
well with all my heart for i must needs acknowledge i shall be right glad of your company .

there now be off and do not trouble me any more .
my dear you have given me a piece of dough let me bake it in your oven for i have no place of my own to bake it in .
very well

i can not find the cake it must have tumbled into the fire and got burnt .
very well give me another piece of dough instead and i will wait while it bakes .

dear me i have surely lost the dough again . theres no cake here .
tis a pity but never mind . i will wait while you bake me another piece .

that is mine
no how could such a large loaf have grown out of a little piece of dough ?
it is mine it is sure
it is not and you shall not have it .

wife i smell fresh meat .
oh my dear it is nothing but the people in the dungeon .

what ! is peggy poyson dead ? then its no time for me to be here and with that it springs through the door and vanishes nor was ever seen again from that day to this .
and did the sexton ever find dan ratcliffe
never . he searched high and low for him about but no one could tell him of such a person though johnny looked long enough thinking it might be the worse for him if he didnt do his best to please the cats . at last however he gave the matter up .
then what was the meaning of the cats message ?
its hard to tell but many folk thought and im inclined to agree with them that dan ratcliffe was johnnys own cat and no one else looking at the way he acted and no other of the name being known . who peggy poyson was no one could tell but likely enough it was some relative of the cat or may be some one it was interested in for its little we know concerning the creatures and their ways and with whom and what theyre mixed up .

i will go and meet him and stop him coming here .
you stop him ! its mad you must be to think of it .
ill go all the same

do you know suchandsuch a place ?
i do indeed for i ought to seeing i have lived in its neighbourhood these many years and have only left there to travel here .
and how many days have you been getting here ?
oh days and days see here see here these are the boots ive worn out on the hard road in coming from the place here .

what sport ?
i think ive caught the devil

nay if there be anothernay were there twenty i would shed the last drop of blood in my body before one of them should escape my fury . when i have finished this task i will come and pay my respects to you .

alas ! young man art thou come to be one amongst us in this miserable den ?

ay i hope i shall not tarry long here but pray tell me what is the meaning of your captivity ?

why ill tell you . we are persons that have been taken by the giants that keep this cave and here we are kept till such time as they have occasion for a particular feast and then the fattest amongst us is slaughtered and prepared for their devouring jaws . it is not long since they took three for the same purpose .

say you so well i have given them both such a dinner that it will be long enough eer theyll have occasion for any more .

you may believe me for i have slain them with the point of my sword and as for their monstrous heads i sent them in a wagon to the court of king arthur as trophies of my unparalleled victory .

fe fi fo fum ! i smell the blood of an englishman be he alive or be he dead ill grind his bones to make me bread .

sayest thou so ? then thou art a monstrous miller indeed . but what if i serve thee as i did the two giants of late ? on my conscience i should spoil your practice for the future .

art thou that villain which destroyed my kinsmen ? then will i tear thee with my teeth and what is more i will grind thy bones to powder .

you will catch me first sir

father have you any entertainment for a benighted traveller that has lost his way ?

yes if you will accept of such accommodation as my poor cottage will afford thou shalt be right welcome .

finally this vessel of unknown material of unusual colour and of extraordinary form was presented to henry the elder king of the english as a valuable gift was then given to the queens brother david king of the scots and was kept for several years in the treasury of scotland . a few years ago as i have heard from good authority it was given by william king of the scots to henry the second who wished to see it .

come catch me .

i pray go to such a place and fetch me a bottle of straw i have asked him leave .

nay prithee tom go

i am come for a bottle of straw .

tom take as much as thou canst carry .

tom thy rope is too short

stand away ye fools !

now see what a man can do !

marry it is true

ay take one that thou canst carry .

sirrah who gave you authority to come this way ? do you not know i make all stand in fear of my sight and you like an impudent rogue must come and fling my gates open at your pleasure ? how dare you presume to do this ? are you so careless of your life ? i will make thee an example for all rogues under the sun . dost thou not care what thou dost ? do you see how many heads hang upon yonder tree that have offended my law ? thy head shall hang higher than all the rest for an example !

a fig for your news for you shall not find me like one of them .

no ? why ? thou art but a fool if thou comest to fight with such a one as i am and bring no weapon to defend thyself withal .

i have a weapon here will make you understand you are a traitorly rogue .

ay sirrah

what shall i deliver ?

your money sirrah

but you will give me better words for it and you must be better armed .

come come we do not come here to parley but we come for money and money we will have before we stir from this place .

ay ! is it so ? then get it and take it .

no but ill make you know before you and i part it is me .

ay ! i have been this three long years and have had no combat with any man and none durst make me an answer . i think they be all cowards in this country except it be a man who is called thomas hickathrift who killed a giant . him i would fain see to have one combat with him .

ay ! but methinks i might be master in your mouth . i am the man what have you to say to me ?

why verily i am glad we have met so happily together that we may have one single combat .

sure you do but jest ?

marry i am in earnest .

a match will you give me leave to get a twig ?

ay hang him that will fight a man unarmed . i scorn that .

our wills our law and by that alone we will be governed .

nay if it be so these trusty clubs are our weapons and by them you shall be chastised

how now rascals what would you be at ? are you indeed weary of the world that you so unadvisedly set upon one who is able to crush you in like a cucumber ?

high words no i will come to action

what a company of cripples has he made as it were in the twinkling of an eye !

yes i believe that for every drop of blood that i lost i have made the rascals pay me a limb as a just tribute .

well i would gladly take my fortune with you hoping that i may be serviceable to you upon occasion .

well with all my heart for i must needs acknowledge i shall be right glad of your company .

there now be off and do not trouble me any more .

my dear you have given me a piece of dough let me bake it in your oven for i have no place of my own to bake it in .

very well

i can not find the cake it must have tumbled into the fire and got burnt .

very well give me another piece of dough instead and i will wait while it bakes .

dear me i have surely lost the dough again . theres no cake here .

tis a pity but never mind . i will wait while you bake me another piece .

that is mine

no how could such a large loaf have grown out of a little piece of dough ?

it is mine it is sure

it is not and you shall not have it .

wife i smell fresh meat .

oh my dear it is nothing but the people in the dungeon .

what ! is peggy poyson dead ? then its no time for me to be here and with that it springs through the door and vanishes nor was ever seen again from that day to this .

and did the sexton ever find dan ratcliffe

never . he searched high and low for him about but no one could tell him of such a person though johnny looked long enough thinking it might be the worse for him if he didnt do his best to please the cats . at last however he gave the matter up .

then what was the meaning of the cats message ?

its hard to tell but many folk thought and im inclined to agree with them that dan ratcliffe was johnnys own cat and no one else looking at the way he acted and no other of the name being known . who peggy poyson was no one could tell but likely enough it was some relative of the cat or may be some one it was interested in for its little we know concerning the creatures and their ways and with whom and what theyre mixed up .

i will go and meet him and stop him coming here .

you stop him ! its mad you must be to think of it .

ill go all the same

do you know suchandsuch a place ?

i do indeed for i ought to seeing i have lived in its neighbourhood these many years and have only left there to travel here .

and how many days have you been getting here ?

oh days and days see here see here these are the boots ive worn out on the hard road in coming from the place here .

what sport ?

i think ive caught the devil