"It is good. I also will come with you," the giant said.
Well then, while these three are going, having met with yet a river,
when the giant who was on the ash-heap told the other giants to hang
on his body, the other giants hung on it. After that, having descended
into the river, the giant began to swim in the river. At that time a
fish came to swallow them. Having chopped the fish with his sword,
the giant who stayed on the ash-heap, taking the fish and taking
these giants, swam to the far bank.
Thereafter, a giant having gone up a tree, they told him to look for
a place where there is fire. He said that a fire smoke is rising. Then
they told him to mark [the direction] and bring fire.
The giant having gone, when he looked about saw that a woman, [after]
placing a large pot of paddy on the hearth, was pouring water over
(that is, bathing) a child. At the time when he asked for a little
fire, she said, "I am pouring water over the child. You come and
take it."
The giant having gone, at the time when he was bending to take the
fire the woman arose and came, and having lifted up and cast the giant
on the heap of fire-charcoal, and killed him, put him in the house.
Thereafter, to look for him yet [another] giant went. When that giant
also in that way was bending down, the woman having arisen and come,
and put him on the fire-heap, and killed him, put him into the house.
When [the ash-heap giant] told that [other] giant to look for the
two giants, he went, and asked, "Didn't our men come here?"
Thereupon the woman said, "Those men I saw not." After that, like the
giants who first got the fire, at the time when he was bending down
to take the fire, the woman having arisen and killed him also in the
way in which she killed the first giants, put him into the house.
Thereafter, the giant who at first did cultivation work having gone,
taking his sword also, asked, "Didn't my three men come here?"