So Nix Nought Nothing threw down the hair dagger and out of it grew as
quick as lightning a thick hedge of sharp razors placed criss-cross.
The giant had to tread very cautiously to get through all this and
meanwhile the young lovers ran on, and on, and on, till they were
nearly out of sight. But at last the giant was through, and it wasn't
long before he was like to catch them up. But just as he was
stretching out his hand to catch Nix Nought Nothing his daughter took
out her magic flask and dashed it on the ground. And as it broke out
of it welled a big, big wave that grew, and that grew, till it reached
the giant's waist and then his neck, and when it got to his head, he
was drowned dead, and dead, and dead indeed. So he goes out of the
story.

But Nix Nought Nothing fled on till where do you think they came to?
Why, to near the castle of Nix Nought Nothing's father and mother. But
the giant's daughter was so weary that she couldn't move a step
further. So Nix Nought Nothing told her to wait there while he went
and found out a lodging for the night. And he went on towards the
lights of the castle, and on the way he came to the cottage of the
hen-wife whose boy had had his brains dashed out by the giant. Now she
knew Nix Nought Nothing in a moment, and hated him because he was the
cause of her son's death. So when he asked his way to the castle she
put a spell upon him, and when he got to the castle, no sooner was he
let in than he fell down dead asleep upon a bench in the hall. The
king and queen tried all they could do to wake him up, but all in
vain. So the king promised that if any lady could wake him up she
should marry him. Meanwhile the giant's daughter was waiting and
waiting for him to come back. And she went up into a tree to watch for
him. The gardener's daughter, going to draw water in the well, saw the
shadow of the lady in the water and thought it was herself, and said;