But the Giantess poured some water into her coffee-pot, patted it once or twice with her hand, and then poured out a cupful of steaming hot coffee.
"Would you like some ?" she asked Woot.
He was suspicious of magic coffee, but it smelled so good that he could not resist it; so he answered: "If you please, Madam." The Giantess poured out another cup and set it on the floor for Woot.
It was as big as a tub, and the golden spoon in the saucer beside the cup was so heavy the boy could scarcely lift it.

But Woot managed to get a sip of the coffee and found it delicious.
Mrs.Yoop next transformed the weeds into a dish of oatmeal, which she ate with good appetite.
"Now, then," said she, picking up the pebbles.

"I'm wondering whether I shall have fish-balls or lamb-chops to complete my meal.

Which would you prefer, Woot the Wanderer ?" "If you please, I'll eat the food in my knapsack," answered the boy.
"Your magic food might taste good, but I'm afraid of it." The woman laughed at his fears and transformed the pebbles into fish-balls.
"I suppose you think that after you had eaten this food it would turn to stones again and make you sick," she remarked; "but that would be impossible.

Nothing I transform ever gets back to its former shape again, so these fish-balls can never more be pebbles.