"To keep the giant from cutting it off?"
"Yes. He could not do any thing with his head off."
"Only just hop about, I s'pose, like a hen."
"So he took them all off and started—"
"His coat and jacket and cap?"
"No, no; only the things—the other things—and started to meet the giant."
"Alone?"
"All alone. And the big army and the general stood back looking and trembling and expecting the giant would cut him all to pieces with his awful sword."
"Did he?"
"You'll see."