`` That 's the very thing for a man like me , '' thought the little tailor ; `` one does n't get the offer of a beautiful princess and half a kingdom every day . '' `` Done with you , '' he answered ; `` I 'll soon put an end to the giants . But I have n't the smallest need of your hundred horsemen ; a fellow who can slay seven men at a blow need not be afraid of two . '' The little tailor set out , and the hundred horsemen followed him . When he came to the outskirts of the wood he said to his followers : `` You wait here , I 'll manage the giants by myself '' ; and he went on into the wood , casting his sharp little eyes right and left about him . After a while he spied the two giants lying asleep under a tree , and snoring till the very boughs bent with the breeze . The little tailor lost no time in filling his wallet with stones , and then climbed up the tree under which they lay . When he got to about the middle of it he slipped along a branch till he sat just above the sleepers , when he threw down one stone after the other on the nearest giant . The giant felt nothing for a long time , but at last he woke up , and pinching his companion said : `` What did you strike me for ? '' `` I did n't strike you , '' said the other , `` you must be dreaming . '' They both lay down to sleep again , and the tailor threw down a stone on the second giant , who sprang up and cried : `` What 's that for ? Why did you throw something at me ? '' `` I did n't throw anything , '' growled the first one . They wrangled on for a time , till , as both were tired , they made up the matter and fell asleep again . The little tailor began his game once more , and flung the largest stone he could find in his wallet with all his force , and hit the first giant on the chest . `` This is too much of a good thing ! '' he yelled , and springing up like a madman , he knocked his companion against the tree till he trembled . He gave , however , as good as he got , and they became so enraged that they tore up trees and beat each other with them , till they both fell dead at once on the ground . Then the little tailor jumped down . `` It 's a mercy , '' he said , `` that they did n't root up the tree on which I was perched , or I should have had to jump like a squirrel on to another , which , nimble though I am , would have been no easy job . ''
He drew his sword and gave each of the giants a very fine thrust or two on the breast , and then went to the horsemen and said : `` The deed is done , I 've put an end to the two of them ; but I assure you it has been no easy matter , for they even tore up trees in their struggle to defend themselves ; but all that 's of no use XXXXX one who slays seven men at a blow . ''
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