And Ian made answer : ` Why may I not go where you can go ? ' ' I was brought hither by a giant . ' ' I know full well , ' said he . ` Are you Ian , the soldier 's son ? ' asked she again . And again he answered : ` Yes , I am ; but tell me , why are you weeping ? ' ` To-morrow the giant will return from the hunting hill , and I must marry him , ' she sobbed . And Ian took no heed , and only said : ` How can I bring him home ? ' ` Shake the iron chain that hangs outside the gate . ' And Ian went out , and gave such a pull to the chain that he fell down at full length from the force of the shake . But in a moment he was on his feet again , and seized the chain with so much strength that four links came off in his hand . And the giant heard him in the hunting hill , as he was putting the game he had killed into a bag . ` In the leeward , or the windward , or in the four brown boundaries of the sea , there is none who could give my chain a shake save only Ian , the soldier 's son . And if he has reached me , then he has left my two brothers dead behind him . ' With that he strode back to the castle , the earth trembling under him as he went . ` Are you Ian , the soldier 's son ? ' asked he . And the youth answered : ` No , of a surety . ' ` Then who are you in the leeward , or the windward , or in the four brown boundaries of the sea , who are able to shake my battle chain ? There is only Ian , the soldier 's son , who can do this , and he is but now sixteen years old . '
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