Sīgiris the Giant replied, “Knock a hole through that wall with your hand, and give me it.”
“I cannot,” that one said.
Then Sīgiris the Giant said, “What sort of a giant art thou, one who can’t make a hole through that wall and give me a little tobacco!” Saying, “Look there! Give me it through there,” Sīgiris the Giant struck with his hand at the place which he had previously bored. When he struck it his hand made a hole through to the other side. That giant becoming afraid at the blow, began to tremble, and thought, “I can’t win in fighting with this one.”
On the following day they made them come out to fight. The place was filled with people who had come to look on. Sīgiris the Giant thinks in his mind, “To-day is indeed my Fate. How shall I escape?” That giant, through fear his thoughts were the same.
The King said, “Strike ye each other.”
Having said, “It is good,” each one being afraid of the other, said, “Strike thou.” Sīgiris says to the other, “Thou strike,” he says. By that one and by this one not a blow was struck.
Then the King says to Sīgiris the Giant, “Strike thou first.”
Sīgiris the Giant said, “It is good,” and thinking of running away, and saying to the people, addressing them loudly, “Get to both sides, and stop there,” looked round to run off. At that, the other giant, rolling the people over, began to run away, and the people who were there cried “Hū,” after him.
Then the King having become pleased with Sīgiris Siññō, and having given him a present of five hundred masuran, established him in the post of Prime Minister.
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