sent for Jack, and declared that he should always be called

_Jack the Giant Killer_;

and they also gave him a magnificent sword and an embroidered belt,
upon which was emblazoned, in letters of gold,

"_This is the valiant Cornish man
Who slew the Giant Cormoran_"

The news of Jack's victory soon spread over all the west of England;
so that another Giant, named Blunderbore, hearing of it, vowed to be
revenged on Jack, if ever it was his fortune to light on him. This
Giant kept an enchanted castle, situated in the midst of a lonely
wood.

Now Jack, about four months after his last exploit, riding near this
castle in his journey towards Wales, being weary, lay down near a
pleasant fountain in the wood, and quickly fell asleep. Presently the
Giant, coming to the fountain for water, discovered him; and as the
lines written on the belt shewed who he was, he immediately took Jack
on his shoulders, and carried him towards his castle. Now, as they
passed through a thicket, the rustling of the boughs awakened Jack,
who was terribly frightened to find himself in the clutches of
Blunderbore. Yet this was nothing to his fright soon after; for when
they reached the castle, he beheld the floor covered all over with
skulls and bones of men and women.

The Giant took him into a large room, where lay the limbs of persons
that had been lately killed; and he told Jack, with a horrid grin,