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Your husband told me to come and get you," "All right," she said, 

 "but how will I get out? The giant has the only key somewhere. 

 I don't have any. How will we get out, then? He will come back in 

 a Httle while. Hide somewhere. When he comes back he will know 

 right away what is going on." "O.K.," he said, and he went and hid 

 somewhere. The giant was coming back and as he stepped the earth 

 shook. He already knew, and he said, "Hnimm! Who is here?" 

 Then the king's wife said, "Nobody is here and there is nobody 

 talldng with me." The king's wife then said to the giant "Let me 

 wash your head. Maj^be you are tired. Let me wash your head 

 and then maybe you will rest well and go to sleep." "O.K., then," 

 said the giant. Then the King's wife made suds. When his head 

 was washed the giant went to sleep. Then the Idng's wife called 

 to St. James, "Come here; he is asleep." Then she told him, "Go 

 to the mountains. He keeps them there. There he breathes and 

 there he has his two hearts. He breathes with one, and with one 

 he has power." Thus it was told to St. James. The Idng's wife 

 said, "But he has a mountain lion there watching who is very mean." 

 Then St. James said, "All right, I'll go." So he left and talked 

 with the eagle who had led him. Then the eagle said to him, "Come 

 on, let's go." So he got back on and they flew away to the moun- 

 tains. Then they landed down on the west side, but the mountain 

 lion had already seen them. 



Then St, James got off and walked on eastward alone. The moun- 

 tain lion saw him and approached from the east. He was mad and his 

 hair stood up as he approached. St. James had his knife ready and the 

 two of them fought. The king's wife had told him where the two 

 hearts were, so he killed the mountain Hon and climbed up. He saw 

 two eggs sitting there. Then he broke one of them, put one in his 

 pocket and climbed back down. 



Then he arrived back where the eagle was waiting. He got back on 

 and from there they returned according to the instructions of the king's 

 wife. The giant was already sick when he got back and dismounted. 

 The king's wife, too, was waiting. "Come on in," she called to him, 

 "did you bring it back?" "Yes," he said, "here it is." And he gave 

 it to her. Then they both went to the sick one. He said to him, 

 "Lift up 3^our head." Then he hfted it up and burst. So the giant 

 was killed. Then the king's wife and St. James got on the eagle and 

 they went back to the king's house. And St. James married the king's 

 daughter that he had promised to him. That is the story. 



