"'Dinner! Here comes my dinner!'
"When they had come still nearer Jack cried aloud, 'I am Jack, the Giant Killer, and I have come to visit you.'
"'Ha, ha!' laughed the giant, 'You are a little man and brave.' 'There is one thing you cannot do, big though you be,' said Jack.
"'Name it,' said Growlegrum. 'I can pull up trees and kick down towns and chew cannon balls and eat you. What is there I cannot do?'
"'Sir,' answered Jack, 'All these things are easy.' 'If I cannot eat anything and kill anybody I will quit this land and go home,' said the giant in a rage.
"'Good!' cried Jack, 'Come with us.'
"Upon this the giant picked them both up and walked off in the direction which Jack pointed out. Presently they came to a house.
"'Stop!' said Jack, and the giant set them down.
"'Eat the man who lives in that house,' said Jack.
"'Poh!' cried Growlegrum, and gave the house a kick which knocked it down in a twinkling. Then he pulled out of the ruins a man who began to roar for mercy.