"Nor cannon balls?"
"Nor cannon balls."
"What, then?"
"Swords and spears."
"His must have been dreadful big."
"I guess so; as big as—as—as—"
"As big as a railroad rail?"
"Shouldn't wonder. But we'll say half, or a quarter."
"He would have been splendid to build bridges and ships."
"He chose rather to cut off good people's heads. That was about all he cared to do. That's what he wanted to do when he stood there on the hillside and for forty days kept calling for some one on the other side to come over and fight with him. He knew he was so strong and had such a strong dress on—made of brass, as I said—that he could easily cut off any one's head that dared come out against him. For there was no such giant anywhere."