I moved it a month ago.'
"'What a man you are, Thunderthump! You trust any creature alive rather
than your wife.'
"Here the giantess gave a sob which sounded exactly like a wave going flop
into the mouth of a cave up to the roof.
"'Where have you got it now?' she resumed, checking her emotion.
"'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. But she is rather capricious, and
I confess I am not easy about it; for the least scratch of one of her
claws would do for me at once. And she _has_ claws.'"
* * * * *
"What funny things you do make up!" said a boy. "How could the giant's
heart be in an eagle's nest, and the giant himself alive and well without
it?"
"Whatever you may think of it, Master Fred, I assure you I did not make it
up.
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