It all started one bright morning with a little tailor and a big pot of sweet, sticky jam. He spread it thickly on his bread, humming a happy tune. But oh dear! Some buzzing flies decided they wanted a taste too. They landed right on his jammy bread.
"Shoo, you rascals!" said the tailor.
But the flies didn't listen. So, with a quick flick of his hand and a piece of cloth, WHACK! He got them. He counted carefully, "One, two, three... seven! Seven at one blow!"
He was so proud of himself. "The whole world must know how strong I am!" he thought. So, he stitched himself a shiny belt, and on it, in big letters, he wrote: "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW."

With his new belt on, he packed a piece of cheese and a little bird in his pocket (you never know when they might be useful!) and set off to see the world.
Soon, he met a giant! The giant looked down at the little tailor and saw the belt. "Seven at one blow?" boomed the giant. "You must mean seven men! You are strong!"
The tailor just puffed out his chest.
"Let's see," said the giant. He picked up a big stone and squeezed it so hard that water dripped out. "Can you do that?"
"Ha! Easy!" said the tailor. He pulled the soft cheese from his pocket and squeezed it. Milky whey dripped out. "See?"
The giant was surprised. "Hmm. Let's try this." He picked up another stone and threw it so high it almost touched the clouds.
"Not bad," said the tailor. "But watch this." He took the little bird from his pocket and threw it up. The bird, happy to be free, flew higher and higher, right out of sight. "Mine went so high, it didn't even come back!"
The giant scratched his head. "Well, can you help me carry this big tree?" he asked, pointing to a huge oak he had just pulled up.
"Of course!" said the tailor. "You take the heavy trunk, and I'll carry all those branches. They're much more spread out and tricky, you know."
So, the giant struggled with the heavy trunk, and the little tailor hopped onto a branch, whistled a tune, and let the giant do all the work.

The giant, a bit confused but impressed, took the tailor to his cave where other giants lived. The bed they gave him was enormous. The tailor, being clever, didn't sleep in the middle. He rolled off to one side. In the night, the first giant, thinking the tailor was asleep, took a huge iron bar and SMASHED it down on the bed!
"That's the end of him!" he chuckled.
But the next morning, out skipped the tailor, whistling. "Good morning!" he chirped. The giants were so scared they ran away!

The tailor walked on and came to a kingdom. He lay down in the king's garden to rest. Some people saw his belt: "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW!" They ran to the king. "A mighty warrior is here! He could help us!"
The king invited the tailor to join his army. But the other soldiers were afraid. "If he killed seven men at one blow, he might get angry with us!" they whispered.
The king, also a little nervous, wanted to test the tailor. "Brave tailor," he said, "there are two terrible giants in the forest causing trouble. If you defeat them, you can marry my daughter, the princess, and have half my kingdom."
The tailor said, "Certainly!" He found the giants sleeping under a tree. He climbed the tree and started dropping small stones on one giant's head.
"Ouch! Why did you hit me?" grumbled the giant to his friend.
"I didn't hit you!" said the other.
The tailor then dropped stones on the second giant.
"Now you hit ME!" he roared.
The two giants started arguing, then fighting, hitting each other with trees until they both fell down, defeated. The tailor just smiled.

The king was amazed but still had more tasks. "First, you must catch a fierce unicorn that is damaging the forest."
The tailor took an axe and a rope. When the unicorn charged at him, he quickly jumped behind a big tree. WHOOMPH! The unicorn’s horn got stuck deep in the tree. The tailor tied it up. "Easy peasy!"
"One last thing," said the king, a bit worried now. "Catch the wild boar that roams the woods."
The tailor found the boar. When it chased him, he ran towards a little old chapel. He darted inside and quickly jumped out of a window on the other side. The boar charged in after him, and SLAM! The tailor shut the heavy door, trapping the boar inside.

The king had no choice. The tailor married the beautiful princess and got half the kingdom.
One night, the princess heard her husband talking in his sleep. "Boy, make the jacket, and patch the trousers, or I'll hit you with the measuring stick!"
"Oh dear!" she thought. "He's just a tailor!" She told her father, the king.
The king was angry. "Tonight, my men will sneak in and take him away!"
But a loyal servant heard the plan and warned the tailor.
That night, when the king's men crept to the bedroom door, the tailor pretended to be asleep but shouted loudly, "Boy, make the jacket and patch the trousers! I have struck down seven at one blow, defeated two giants, captured a unicorn, and trapped a wild boar! Do you think I'm afraid of those standing outside my door?"
The men outside heard this and were terrified! They ran away as fast as their legs could carry them and never dared to bother the little tailor again.
And so, the clever little tailor lived as a king, happily and bravely, for the rest of his days.

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