drinking. If now you mean to drink off the horn the third time it seems
to me you must drink more than you have done. You will never be reckoned
so great a man amongst us as the Æsir make you out to be if you cannot
do better in other games than it appears to me you will do in this."

Thor, angry, put the horn to his mouth and drank the best he could and
as long as he was able, but when he looked into the horn the liquor was
only a little lower. Then he gave the horn to the cup-bearer, and would
drink no more.

Then said Utgard-Loki--

"It is plain that you are not so mighty as we imagined. Will you try
another game? It seems to me there is little chance of your taking a
prize hence."

"I will try more contests yet," answered Thor. "Such draughts as I have
drunk would not have seemed small to the Æsir. But what new game have
you?"

Utgard-Loki answered--

"The lads here do a thing which is not much. They lift my cat up from
the ground. I should not have thought of proposing such a feat to
Asu-Thor, had I not first seen that he is less by far than we took him
to be."

As he spoke there sprang upon the hall floor a very large grey cat. Thor
went up to it and put his hand under its middle and tried to lift it
from the floor. The cat bent its back as Thor raised his hands, and when