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“ What can we do ? ” they say to each other . “ If we have a fight with him , seven of us will fall at every blow . Nobody can stand against a man like that . ” So all the soldiers go to the king together . “ Your Majesty , ” they say , “ we want to leave . We do not want to stay with a man who kills seven at one blow . ” The king is sad . He does not want to lose all his good soldiers because of one man . Now he is sorry that he ever met the tailor . He wants to send him away . But the king is afraid . “ What if I send him away ? ” he thinks . “ Maybe he will kill me and all my people . And then he will sit on my throne and be king . ” The king thinks for a long time . At last he has an idea . VII . Two Giants in the Forest The king sends a man to the little tailor with a message . “ You are a great fighter , ” says the king’s man . “ So the king wants to ask you for help . In a forest in his country there are two giants . They take people’s money , they kill people , and they burn houses . Nobody can go near them . Please kill these two giants . Then the king will give you his only daughter as your wife . You will get half of his kingdom too . And a hundred horsemen will go with you and help you . ” “ That is a good offer for a man like me ! ” thinks the little tailor . “ A beautiful princess and half a kingdom ! You do not get that every day ! ” “ Yes , ” he answers . “ I will soon finish off those giants . I do not need the hundred horsemen . A man who hits seven at one blow is not afraid of two . ” The little tailor goes out , and the hundred horsemen ride after him . At the edge of the forest he stops . “ Wait here , ” he says to the horsemen . “ I will soon finish off the giants on my own . ” He runs into the forest . He looks to the right and to the left . After a while he sees the two giants . They are lying under a tree , and they are asleep . They snore so loudly that the branches go up and down . The little tailor does not wait . He fills both his pockets with stones . Then he climbs up the tree . Halfway up , he moves out along a branch . Now he is sitting right above the two sleeping giants . He drops a stone on the first giant’s chest . Then another stone , and another . For a long time the giant feels nothing . But at last he wakes up . He gives his friend a push . “ Why are you hitting me ? ” he asks . “ You are dreaming , ” says the second giant . “ I am not hitting you . ” They lie down again , and they go back to sleep . Now the tailor drops a stone on the second giant . “ What is this ? ” shouts the second giant . “ Why are you throwing things at me ? ” “ I am not throwing anything at you ! ” says the first giant . He is angry now . They argue for a while . But they are tired . So they stop , and they close their eyes again .
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