As soon as it was
over, they looked into the nest, and there lay the giant's heart--an awful
and ugly thing.
"'Make haste, child!' said Tricksey's spider. So Tricksey took her bag,
and squeezed a drop out of it upon the heart. She thought she heard the
giant give a far-off roar of pain, and she nearly fell from her seat with
terror. The heart instantly began to shrink. It shrunk and shrivelled till
it was nearly gone; and Buffy-Bob caught it up and put it into the bag.
Then the two spiders turned and went down again as fast as they could.
Before they got to the bottom, they heard the shrieks of the she-eagle
over the loss of her egg; but the spiders told them not to be alarmed, for
her eyes were too big to see them. By the time they reached the foot of
the mountain, all the spiders had got home, and were busy again catching
flies, as if nothing had happened. So the children, after renewed thanks
to their friends, set off, carrying the giant's heart with them.
"'If you should find it at all troublesome, just give it a little more
spider-juice directly,' said the grandfather, as they took their leave.
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