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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Tricksey-Wee was very glad she happened to know a song which would please the lark's wife, at least, whatever the lark himself might have thought of it, if he had heard it. So she sang: "'Good morrow, my lord! in the sky alone, Sang the lark, as the sun ascended his throne. 'Shine on me, my lord; I only am come, Of all your servants, to welcome you home.
"As soon as Tricksey-Wee had finished her song, the lark's wife began a low, sweet, modest little song of her own; and after she had piped away for two or three minutes, she said: "'You dear children, what can I do for you? "'Tell us where the she-eagle lives, please, said Tricksey-Wee.
Whoever tells me a lie shall be instantly boiled. "'He's in the broom, cried one dough-faced boy. 'He's in there, and a little girl with him. "'The naughty children, cried the giant, 'to hide from me! And he made a stride towards the broom. "'Catch hold of the bristles, Bobby. Get right into a tuft, and hold on, cried Tricksey-Wee, just in time.
When she examined it more closely, she discovered that it was a thimble; and looking up to see who had dropped it, beheld a huge face, with spectacles as big as the round windows in a church, bending over her, and looking everywhere for the thimble. Tricksey-Wee immediately laid hold of it in both her arms, and lifted it about an inch nearer to the nose of the peering giantess.
"Then Tricksey-Wee told them that there was a giant on the borders who treated little children no better than radishes, and that they had narrowly escaped being eaten by him; that they had found out that the great she-eagle of Mount Skycrack was at present sitting on his heart; and that, if they could only get hold of the heart, they would soon teach the giant better behaviour.
But Buffy-Bob was too quick for Thunderthump. He sprang to the heart, and buried his knife in it, up to the hilt. A fountain of blood spouted from it; and with a dreadful groan, the giant fell dead at the feet of little Tricksey-Wee, who could not help being sorry for him after all." "Silly thing!" said a little wisehead.
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