So he went back in a tower of a temper and this time they gave him the
gardener's boy. He went off with him on his back till they got to the
stone again when the giant sat down to rest. And he said:

"Hidge, Hodge, on my back, what time of day do you make that?"

The gardener's boy said: "Sure it's the time that my mother takes up
the vegetables for the queen's dinner." Then the giant was right wild
and dashed his brains out on the stone.

Then the giant went back to the king's house in a terrible temper and
said he would destroy them all if they did not give him Nix Nought
Nothing this time. They had to do it; and when he came to the big
stone, the giant said: "What time of day is that?" Nix Nought Nothing
said: "It is the time that my father the king will be sitting down to
supper." The giant said: "I've got the right one now;" and took Nix
Nought Nothing to his own house and brought him up till he was a man.

The giant had a bonny daughter, and she and the lad grew very fond of
each other. The giant said one day to Nix Nought Nothing: "I've work
for you to-morrow. There is a stable seven miles long and seven miles
broad, and it has not been cleaned for seven years, and you must clean
it to-morrow, or I will have you for my supper."

The giant's daughter went out next morning with the lad's breakfast,
and found him in a terrible state, for always as he cleaned out a bit,
it just fell in again. The giant's daughter said she would help him,
and she cried all the beasts in the field, and all the fowls of the
air, and in a minute they all came, and carried away everything that
was in the stable and made it all clean before the giant came home. He