handful to each animal, who moved forward to meet him, leaving
the king behind. As soon as the giant's hands were near their
mouths they each made a snap, and began to bit them, so that his
groans and shrieks might have been heard a mile off. Then they
wheeled round and kicked him till they could kick no more. At
length the giant crawled away, and lay quivering in a corner, and
the queen went up to him.

'Poor thing! poor thing!' she said, 'they seem to have gone mad;
it was awful to behold.'

'If I had had my soul in my body they would certainly have killed
me,' groaned the giant.

'It was lucky indeed,' answered the queen; 'but tell me, where is
thy soul, that I may take care of it?'

'Up there, in the Bonnach stone,' answered the giant, pointing to
a stone which was balanced loosely on an edge of rock. 'But now
leave me, that I may sleep, for I have far to go to-morrow.'

Soon snores were heard from the corner where the giant lay, and
then the queen lay down too, and the horses, and the king was
hidden between them, so that none could see him.

Before the dawn the giant rose and went out, and immediately the
queen ran up to the Bonnach stone, and tugged and pushed at it
till it was quite steady on its ledge, and could not fall over.
And so it was in the evening when the giant came home; and when
they saw his shadow, the king crept down in front of the horses.