After that, this giant thought, “I can’t eat as much as this one, and I can’t drink as much, and I can’t swim for eight or ten months. Therefore I am indeed unable to swim with this giant and beat him.” He told the King so.
The King said, “If so, thou wilt lose.”
The giant said, “At swimming I shall lose. We must fight each other.”
“It is good,” said the King. Then the King asked Sīgiris Siññō, “Canst thou fight with this one?”
Sīgiris Siññō replied, “I will give that one one blow.”
So the King said, “Fight ye each other to-morrow.”
Thereupon Sīgiris the Giant said, “Not to-morrow. After a month has gone both giants will fight each other. Having proclaimed it, and put both of us into two houses under one roof, you must give us to eat until the month is finished.”
The King said, “It is good.”
Sīgiris the Giant having sought for an iron nail, from that day dug into the wall of the house in which the giant was [which separated their two rooms]. Having dug [nearly through] it, when the month would be finished to-morrow Sīgiris the Giant said to that giant, “Aḍē! Giant, give me a little tobacco.”
That giant said, “How can I give you tobacco there?”