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perceived before, started from under the Giant's
chair, and barked at Jack most furiously, who now
gave himself up for lost; fear reverted him to the
spot-instead of running, he stood still, though
expecting his enemy to awake every minute.
Contrary, however, to expectation, the Giant
continued in a sound sleep-the dog grew weary of
barking; Jack, looking round, saw a large piece of
meat, which he threw to the dog, who took it into
the lumber-closet, which Jack had just left. He found
himself thus delivered from a noisy and troublesome
enemy; and, as the Giant did not awake, Jack seized
both the bags, and carried them away: he reached the
street-door in safety, and found it quite day-light. In
his way to the top of the bean-stalk, the only
difficulty he had to encounter arose from the weight
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