sack, and began to batter it. His wife cried, "It's me, man;" but the
dog barked and the cat mewed, and he did not know his wife's voice.
But Molly came out from the back of the door, and the giant saw her,
and he after her; and he ran and she ran, till they came to the
"Bridge of one hair," and she got over but he couldn't; and he said,
"Woe worth you, Molly Whuppie! never you come again." "Never more,
carle," quoth she, "will I come again to Spain."

So Molly took the ring to the king, and she was married to his
youngest son, and she never saw the giant again.



THE RED ETTIN

There was once a widow that lived on a small bit of ground, which she
rented from a farmer. And she had two sons; and by-and-by it was time
for the wife to send them away to seek their fortune. So she told her
eldest son one day to take a can and bring her water from the well,
that she might bake a cake for him; and however much or however little
water he might bring, the cake would be great or small accordingly,
and that cake was to be all that she could give him when he went on
his travels.

The lad went away with the can to the well, and filled it with water,
and then came away home again; but the can being broken, the most part
of the water had run out before he got back. So his cake was very
small; yet small as it was, his mother asked him if he was willing to
take the half of it with her blessing, telling him that, if he chose
rather to take the whole, he would only get it with her curse. The