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LABOULAYES FAIRY BOOK There was no answer. The giant, furious, sprang out of bed, seized a ladle, which looked like a caldron with a pitchfork for a handle, and plunged it into the pot to taste the soup. " Finette! " howled he, "you haven’t salted it. What sort of soup is this? I see neither meat nor vegetables.”’ No; but, in return, he saw his carpet, which had not quite all boiled to pieces. At this sight he fell into such a fit of rage that he could not keep his feet. Villains!” said he, "you have played a fine trick on me; but you shall pay for it.” He rushed out with a stick in his hand, and strode along at such a rate that in a quarter of an hour he discovered the two fugitives still far from the seashore. He uttered such a cry of joy that the earth shook for twelve leagues around. Finette stopped, trembling. Yvon clasped her to his heart. ““On—the Kerver!” said he; "the sea is not far off; we shall be there before our enemy." " Here he is! here he is!” cried Finette, pointing to the giant not a hundred yards off; "we are lost if this charm does not save us." She took the copper bullet and threw it on the ground, saying, “Copper bullet, save us, pray; Stop the giant on his way.” 18 ‘
