Connecticut western news., 1878-07-11
VOL. VIII.

| A>o" AO uOFcO OH 10 one S1u6, ana then behind him, and then suddenly it was gone. But he did not feel afraid, though he did not know why, and he kept on walking because he knew he must come to something. Soon he did, sure enough. He saw just before him what he thought was tall tree-as tall as the house he lived in in New York but suddenly the top of the tree began to whistle; and made such a wind that Tommy's sailor hat blew of. Tommy tried to run, but he couldn't move, he was so frightened. But the whistle sounded very good -humored, and Tommy remembered that he had never seen any body whistle jolly tune because he was angry. It would be good time to speak to this great creature, but how was it to be done? Tommy wished for his Christmas horn he wished for a telephone he wished for a big pair of lungs but wishing brought none ot them. At last he walked boldly up to the big man, and. standing by his shoe, took hold of the hem of his trousers, and pulled very hard. Then the giant felt him, and picked him up with great hand, and looked at him. And when the giant had asked Tommy all about him. self, Tommy took courage aud said,
 :" And who are you?" 1 i@" Oh, said the man, "I'm the Jersey Giant" '..'a '.
 So Tommy went, on the Jersey Giants shoulder, to the place where the Jersey Giant lived. z They went with such strides that Tommy thought sometimes he should certainly be whirled of the giants shoulder. They came at last to a house so high that Tommy couldn't see the top of it, where the giant took Tommy's breath away by suddenly sitting down on bench outside the door. You can imagine to yourself how Tommy felt, if you suppose that you were on the roof of house, and the house suddenly sat down. Presently the giant said,
 'It's tune to go and dig the dinner. ,
 ''To do what I" cried, Tommy, ir amazement. s ~s y,5,s' 2 ,ts-, v.
 "To dig the dinnerl" roared the giant, in voice that frightened the little fellow into silence. s'Come and see the farm, " the giant roared again. "There's no such cooking done any where else II this country
 "' Dig the dinner - cooking ion farm ' What does he mean p thought Tommy; but he did not dare to ask.
 The giant put Tommy on his shoulder again, and away they went. -.
 'tI think that mince-pie must be ripe, ' said the giant. ..uf ets-. rt tse.
 {" What 7" shrieked Tommy, right into the giants ear; for he sat close by it.
 I say mince-pie must be ripe, and we re going out to the patch to see."
 Cooking lon a farm l-digging the dinner !--mince- pie patch Tommy was so astonished that he could not utter 6 word. And sure enough they came to 6 garden patch of mince-pie the crust was turning rich brown under the sun and the edges were all scalloped just as they are on the pies at home. The giant took down silver spade that hung on ( tree near at hand-which Tommy noticed was full of jelly tarts just ripening, and had two or three kinds of cake graftec on it besides-and cut out big piece o the pie; he said the glass wagon would come along and get it. But before ht went on he pulled raisin out of the pic and gave it to Tommy to eat; it was q. big as Tommy's fist.
 I "I'm taking the wrong end of my din ner first, " said the giant "wen go ant sSe how the soup tastes. Ihaven't look ed after the soups this year as I ough to have done, and I'm afraid the crop ii going to be poor" A crop of soups
 How queer, Tommy thought, but he dic not dare to ask any more questions Really I'm little afraid to tell you al the strange things Tommy saw, becaus, you may think this story is not true But where do you think they found tn soups? In big reservoirs like that ol Fifth avenue, and each reservoir held different kind of soup. The reservoi nearest to them held black bean soup and very black it looked; and the mex held pea soup, which was of brett, dark green and the one beyond was o tomato soup, and very red and bright i was. All the reservoirs were of the mos beautiful china; each was quarter of mile long and quarter of a mile wide and each of them was as clean as one o your mothers plates. .-...u ... . "Now for the fish," said the giant and he stepped over to a pond, wher 3 they had no sooner appeared than tn 8 fish came swimming up to the shore They seemed anxious to be caught, an what is more, they were all cooked , When Tommy looked closer he saw tha what he had thought to be the wate I they were swimming in was lake ( . sauce. Finally the giant picked out I handsome salmon trout, that was nicel g cooked and beautifully trimmed wit 8 green leaves and slices of hard boile @ egg, and evidently prided himself yer
 much on his appearance.
 k The roast beef, the giant said, the t would get at the beef garden near tn ]. house, but now they must look after th " vegetables. So he dug up few boile 't potatoes that were about as big as puml tt kins, and pulled some smoking hot cal + of corn off of some stalks that were { l. tall as the trees Tommy was used to, an k pulled up some parsnips that fell apa, tt in slices as soon as they came up, an