The black limbs waved in ungainly gestures.

Something in the fling of the limbs suggested haste to the young giant's mind.

He waved his pine mast in reply, filled the whole valley with his vast Hullo! threw a "Something's up" to his brothers, and set off in twenty-foot strides to meet and help his father.
V.
It chanced too that a young man who was not a giant was delivering his soul about these sons of Cossar just at that same time.

He had come over the hills beyond Sevenoaks, he and his friend, and he it was did the talking.

In the hedge as they came along they had heard a pitiful squealing, and had intervened to rescue three nestling tits from the attack of a couple of giant ants.