`` Get up , Antaeus ! Bestir yourself , you lazy old Giant ! Here comes another Giant , as strong as you are , to fight with you . '' `` Nonsense , nonsense ! '' growled the sleepy Giant . `` I 'll have my nap out , come who may . '' Still the stranger drew nearer ; and now the Pygmies could plainly discern that , if his stature were less lofty than the Giant 's , yet his shoulders were even broader . And , in truth , what a pair of shoulders they must have been ! As I told you , a long while ago , they once upheld the sky . The Pygmies , being ten times as vivacious as their great numskull of a brother , could not abide the Giant 's slow movements , and were determined to have him on his feet . So they kept shouting to him , and even went so far as to prick him with their swords . `` Get up , get up , get up , '' they cried . `` Up with you , lazy bones ! The strange Giant 's club is bigger than your own , his shoulders are the broadest , and we think him the stronger of the two . '' Antaeus could not endure to have it said that any mortal was half so mighty as himself . This latter remark of the Pygmies pricked him deeper than their swords ; and , sitting up , in rather a sulky humor , he gave a gape of several yards wide , rubbed his eyes , and finally turned his stupid head in the direction whither his little friends were eagerly pointing . No sooner did he set eyes on the stranger , than , leaping on his feet , and seizing his walking stick , he strode a mile or two to meet him ; all the while brandishing the sturdy pine tree , so that it whistled through the air . `` Who are you ? '' thundered the Giant . `` And what do you want in my dominions ? ''
There was one strange thing about Antaeus , XXXXX which I have not yet told you , lest , hearing of so many wonders all in a lump , you might not believe much more than half of them .
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