was the eye in its owner's hand being lifted up towards the head of the stick. Next he could just see enough to make out that it was held between the forefinger and the middle finger; and then he took courage, for he felt sure he could grab it more easily so, than if it had been held between the finger and the thumb. Up it came, a foot at a time, and Jack's heart beat so, he almost fancied the Giant might hear it. Now it was level with Jack's eyes. A moment more, as it still rose, and it would be close to the socket in the head of the stick. And then in a flash Jack made his snatch, got the eye by the tag at the end that served to keep it fast in the wooden socket, and was sliding down the side of the partitionstone as if he had been bred a lamplighter, and was off like a shot round the corner towards the Crag; partly because he was sure that the Giant, on getting outside the cave and trying to follow him, would naturally go the downward path; and partly besides, because he had another plan which he hoped and thought would be likely to work if he made his way up that steep clambery path I told you of. His one great fear was, that the Giant might stop to listen directly he got outside, and so might hear him as he scrambled up; and that then his nose, which Jack knew well enough to be a little frightened of, might enable him to catch him like a fly on the window, if he had not succeeded in climbing far enough to be out of his reach. So, when Jack

heard his old enemy come lumbering and roaring out of the cave, he waited stock still, being only about five yards up the cliff. But Grim never paused, only went on along the usual track feeling about with his long hands and fingers, hoping to catch the daring little thief who had played him such a pestilent trick.

Well, what do you think Jack did when he saw what the Giant was up to? He began his climbing again from the place he had halted at, making all the noise he could, and even contriving to kick down a good big stone or two, one of which actually hopped on to the back of old Grim's hand as he felt about near the ground. In a minute or two, when he had climbed high enough to be quite out of reach, even if the Giant were standing at the very foot of the cliff, he began to whistle and crow and yell as loud as he could. Grim heard him, you may be sure, and knew it was not only the voice of a boy, but of the very boy he had said he meant to have for supper. And he thought in a moment too, Ah! I shall have my supper after all; for he can't get away that way. And won't I grind the little rascal's bones when I catch him!' But as he was making all the haste he could to where he heard Jack's hullaballoo, you may guess if he didn't dance with rage-only his dancing was something queerer and clumsier than any bear's you ever saw-when he heard Jack begin to sing at the very top of his voice

There you go with your eye out,

And your nose in a sling;
And a Giant, his eye without,

Is only a plainish thing!

I am sure there is no need for me to try and tell you what a rage he was in, and how he caught up stones and earth and sods, whole sheets of them, and flung them where it seemed to him the singing came from. But Jack knew he was safe, and kept on singing and mocking him all the same; and at last he was impudent enough to invite the enraged old monster to come to the foot of the cliff and heJack-would reach down his hand and help him to climb up!

This riled Grim worse than anything yet, and roaring out that he would soon be after the japing little ninnyhammer,' he blundered quite close up to the foot of the crags.

Now this was just what Jack had schemed for; and as soon as he had enticed his foe fairly below him, having already got his big pocket-knife, with half a dozen blades and corkscrew and pricker, out of his pocket all ready, with the saw-blade open, he began to work away like mad at the root he had been watching now for some time; and before he had sawed half-way through- CRASH! SNAP!! BANG!!! went the root, and GROAN! GRIND!! RUMBLE!!! ROAR!!!! SHUDDER!!!! SMASH!!!! as if a hundred big castles and churches, with two or

three towns chucked in to help the din, went all the front of the cliffs toppling and tumbling down together in one almighty SMASH !

And when Jack got back his senses a little, and his ears began to throb and ache a little less, and his eyes to recover their power of seeing, and the dust and leaves and twigs that had been thrown up into the air like a cloud by such an undeniable smithereen-business as this land-slip had been, had settled down a little, so that he was able to look down below once again, there he saw that tumbled mass of rocks and earth that we all look upon when we go there, only so beautifully grown over now with birch-trees and holly-trees and ferns, some of them six feet high and more. But then, it was all rough, raw ruin, rocks and earth in one huge unimaginable ruin and confusion and desolation. But just in one particular place Jack could see the toe of a great big brogue, and he somehow a sort of guessed that the foot which used to wear it was a little bit farther in, and that the old monster it belonged to had eaten his last little boy or girl, or indeed white wye either.

And this was the last of the giants in these parts, and that the exact way he came by his end.

And

I think you now know why Little Jack came to be

called always after this Jack the GIANT-CRUSHER.

THE

doing for old Grim, as we heard in the last story, it was so late before he got home that his poor old mother grew quite uneasy about him, and began to think he must have been caught by the Giant, and most likely gobbled up some time since. It really was late, for the sun had gone down almost an hour before he got to his mother's cot; and when he did at last get there, he seemed quite strange and dazed-like, and his face was all bruised and bloody, and he was covered from top to toe with sand and dust and dirt. He had besides got a great jelly-like object covered all over with leaves in his hand, as far as she could make out. Only he would not let her touch it, or even so much as look at it, with his good will. And he grew like one beside himself when she