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"'Your heart is safe enough, dear Thunderthump, said his wife. 'Really a man of your size ought not to be so nervous and apprehensive. I am ashamed of you. "'You have no heart, Doodlem, answered he. 'I assure you that this moment mine is in the greatest danger. It has fallen into the hands of foes, though who they are I cannot tell.
'I would take the best possible care of it. "'I don't doubt it, my love. But the responsibility would be too much for you. You would no longer be my darling, light-hearted, airy, laughing Doodlem. It would transform you into a heavy, oppressed woman, weary of life as I am. "The giant closed his eyes and pretended to go to sleep. His wife got his stockings, and went on with her darning.
The poor giant feel on his knees and began again to beg. But Tricksey-Wee giving the heart a slight pinch, he bawled out: "'Yes, yes! Doodlem shall have it, I swear. Only she must not put it in the flour-barrel, or in the dust-hole. "'Certainly not. Make your own bargain with her. And you promise not to interfere with my brother and me, or to take any revenge for what we have done?
But, dear Doodlem, it's a fretting care to have a heart of one's own to look after. The responsibility is too much for me. If it were not for a bite of a radish now and then, I never could bear it. "Here the giant looked lovingly towards the row of little boys by the fire, all of whom were nodding, or asleep on the floor. "'Why don't you trust it to me, dear Thunderthump? said his wife.
"Here he fainted again; for Tricksey-Wee, finding the heart begin to swell a little, had given it the least touch of spider-juice. "Again he recovered, and said: "'Dear Doodlem, my heart is coming back to me. It is coming nearer and nearer. "After lying silent for a few hours, he exclaimed: "'It is in the house, I know! And he jumped up and walked about, looking in every corner.
"'Well, Doodlem, I don't mind telling you, said the giant, soothingly. 'The great she-eagle has got it for a nest-egg. She sits on it night and day, and thinks she will bring the greatest eagle out of it that ever sharpened his beak on the rocks of Mount Skycrack. I can warrant no one else will touch it while she has got it.
All this time poor Doodlem was sitting in her armchair, crying, and mending a white stocking. "The giant led the way to the borders. He could not go fast, so that Buffy and Tricksey managed to keep up with him. When they reached the borders, they thought it would be safer to let the children find their own way home. So they told him to set them down. He obeyed. "'Have you put them all down, Mr.
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