And when the time came, the princess went out, and the bully with her
down to the shore, and when they got there what did he do, but to tie
the princess to a tree, the way the serpent would be able to swallow
her easy with no delay, and he himself went and hid up in an ivy-tree.
And Jack knew what was going on, for the princess had told him about
it, and had asked would he help her, but he said he would not. But he
came out now, and he put on the suit he had taken from the first giant,
and he came by the place the princess was, but she didn't know him. "Is
that right for a princess to be tied to a tree?" said Jack. "It is not,
indeed," said she, and she told him what had happened, and how the
serpent was coming to take her. "If you will let me sleep for awhile
with my head in your lap," said Jack, "you could wake me when it is
coming." So he did that, and she awakened him when she saw the serpent
coming, and Jack got up and fought with it, and drove it back into the
sea. And then he cut the rope that fastened her, and he went away. The
bully came down then out of the tree, and he brought the princess to
where the king was, and he said, "I got a friend of mine to come and
fight the serpent to-day, where I was a little timorous after being so
long shut up underground, but I'll do the fighting myself to-morrow."

The next day they went out again, and the same thing happened, the
bully tied up the princess where the serpent could come at her fair and
easy, and went up himself to hide in the ivy-tree. Then Jack put on the
suit he had taken from the second giant, and he walked out, and the
princess did not know him, but she told him all that had happened
yesterday, and how some young gentleman she did not know had come and
saved her. So Jack asked might he lie down and take a sleep with his
head in her lap, the way she could awake him. And an happened the same
way as the day before. And the bully gave her up to the king, and said