they asked each other ; `` if we quarrel with him , he 'll let out at us , and at every blow seven will fall . There 'll soon be an end of us . '' So they resolved to go in a body to the King , and all to send in their papers . `` We are not made , '' they said , `` to hold out against a man who kills seven at a blow . '' The King was grieved at the thought of losing all his faithful servants for the sake of one man , and he wished heartily that he had never set eyes on him , or that he could get rid of him . But he did n't dare to send him away , for he feared he might kill him along with his people , and place himself on the throne . He pondered long and deeply over the matter , and finally came to a conclusion . He sent to the tailor and told him that , seeing what a great and warlike hero he was , he was about to make him an offer . In a certain wood of his kingdom there dwelled two giants who did much harm ; by the way they robbed , murdered , burned , and plundered everything about them ; `` no one could approach them without endangering his life . But if he could overcome and kill these two giants he should have his only daughter for a wife , and half his kingdom into the bargain ; he might have a hundred horsemen , too , to back him up . '' `` 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 XXXXX sleep again , and the tailor threw down a stone on the second giant , who sprang up and cried : `` What 's that for ?
So by for if like over till to while without