"Nonsense, nonsense!' growled the sleepy
Giant. "I'll have my nap out, come who
may."

Still the stranger drew nearer; and now the
Pygmies could plainly discern that, if his stature
were less lofty than the Giant's, yet his shoul-
ders were even broader. And, in truth, what a
pair of shoulders they must have been! As I
told you, a long while ago, they once upheld the
sky. The Pygmies, being ten times as viva-
cious as their great numskull of a brother, could
not abide the Giant's slow movements, and
were determined to have him on his feet. So
they kept shouting to him, and even went so far
as to prick him with their swords.

"Get up, get up, get up!" they cried. "Up
with you, lazy bones! The strange Giant's club
is bigger than your own, his shoulders are the
broadest, and we think him the stronger of
the two."

Antaeus could not endure to have it said that
any mortal was half so mighty as himself. This
latter remark of the Pygmies pricked him deeper
than their swords; and, sitting up, in rather a
sulky humor, he gave a gape of several yards

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