The National tribune., 1882-11-30
II was called the Young Plnntas.n.t An,

! reaohSc very large size indeed, mucn larger
than the Early Rose does in our time.
Well, Patroclus and Eness had just dug
| perhaps, 9 busheI Of Young Plantagenct pota
toes. 1t was slow work with them, for Patro
clus had the Giants Shakes badly that morning
and Of course Eness was not very swift lie
! rolled about among the potsto-hills after the
manner OF the Princess Ariadne Diana; but hs
did not present rs imposing sn appearances a'
she, in his homespun farmers frock.
All at once the earth trembled violently
Pstroclus and Eneas looked up and saw the
| Pumpkin Giant coming with his mouth wide
open. "Get behind me, oh my darling son ~
cried Patroclus.
Elneas obeyed, but it was of no use; for you
could see his cheeks eeoh side his fathers waist
| coat.
PatrooIus was not ordinarily brave nan,
but he was bravo in emergency; and ~ that
is the only time when there is ths slightest
need of bravery, it was just IS well.
The Pumpkin Giant strobe along faster and
faster, opening his mouth wider and wider,
until they could fnirly hear 1t crack at the
! corners.
Then Patroclus picked up En enormous Young
/ 4dliLbEHHcb 1Iu LAISH IL pump INV siO
! Pumpkin Giants mouth. The Giant ohoked
and gasped and choked aud gssped. and finally
tumbled down and died
Patroclus and Eneas, while the GSSnt was
choking, had run to the house Snd locked them
selves in then they looked out the kitchen
| window; when they saw the Giant tumble
down and lie quite still, they knew he must
be dead Then Daphne was immediately cured
! of the Giants Shakes, and got out Of bed for tho
first time in two years. Patroclus sharpened
the carving knife on ths kitchen stove, and
they sll went out into the potato field.
They cautiously approached the prostrate
Giant, for fear he might be shammins, snd
might suddenly spring up at them and-Eneas
But no, he did not move at all; he was quite
dead. And, all taking turns they hacked of
his head with the carving knife. Then Hneas
had it TO play with, which was quite appro-
pirate, and good instance of the sarcasm Of
destiny
The King was notified Of the death OF the
Pumpkin Giant and was greatly rejoiced there
by. His Giants Shakes ceased, the props were
removed from the throne, and the Princess
Ariadne Diana was allowed TO go out without
her body guard of fifty knights, much to her
delight, for she found them a great hindrance
to the enjoyment of her daily outings. 1t was
a great cross, not TO say an embarrassment,
when she was gleefully rolling in pursuit OF
charming red and gold butterfly, to find herself
suddenly stopped short by an armed knight
with his lance in rest.
But the King though his gratitude for the no
hla Goad l-DauU no bor1udS omitted IN give the
promised reward and knight Patroclus. hard
ly know how it happened-I don't think it was
anything Intentional. Patroclus felt rather
hurt about it, and Daphne would have liked to
be a lady, but Ancas did not care in the least.
He had the Giants head to play with and that
was reward enough for him. There was not a
boy in the neighborhoOd but envied him his
possession of such unique plaything; and
when they would stand looking over the wall
of the potato-fcld with longing eyes, and he
was flying over the ground with the head, his
happiness knew no bounds and he played so
much with it that finally late in the fall it
got broken and scattered all over the field.
Next spring all over Patroclus' potato-feld
grew running vines, and in the fall Giants
heads. There they were all over the field,
hundreds of them! Then there was consterna-
tion indeed! The natural conclusion to be
arrived at when the people saw the yellow
Giants heads making their appearance above
the ground, was, that the rest of the Giants
were coming.
There was one Pumpkin Giant before
said they, "now there will be whole army of
them. If it was dreadful then, what viii it be
in the future? If one Pumpkin Giant gave us
the Shakes so badly what will whole army
of them do?"
But when some time bad elapsed and nothing
more of the Giants appeared above the surface
Of the potato-field, and as moreover, the heads
had not yet displayed any sign Of opening their
mouths, the people began to feel little easier,
and the general excitement subsided somewhat,
although the King had ordered out Arisdne
Diana's body-guard again.
Now Elneas had been born with propensity
for putting everything into his mouth and
tasting it; there was scarcely anything in his
vicinity which could by any possibility be
tasted, which he had not eaten bit of. This
propensity was SO alarming in his babyhood
that Daphne purchased a book of antidotes;
and il it had not been for her admirable good
judgment in doing so, this story would prob
ably never have been told for no human baby
could possibly have survived the heterogeneous
diet which Eneas had INDUCED in. There was
scarcely one Of the antid0tes which had not
been resoTted to from time TO time.
f.ueas had become acquainted with tho pc
cufia favor of almost everything in hi. i'm
mediate vicinity except the Giants heads; and
he naturally enough cast longing eyes at them. |
hight and day he wondered what Giants |
head could taste like, till finally one day when /
FatrOcius was away he stole out into the potato !
field, cut a bit out Of one Of the Giants heads.
and ate it. Ho was almost afraid to- but he |
reflected that his mother could give him an |
antidote; 20 he ventured. 1t tasted very sweet
and nice he liked it so much that he cut off |
another piece and ate that; then another and |
another, until he had eaten two thirds of a |
Giants head. Then he thought it was about !
time fer him to 20 in and tell his mother and |
take an autidote, though he did not feel i'll at |
all vet.
"Mother," said he, rolling slowly into the
cottage ! have eaten two-thirds of a Giants
head, and l guess you had better give me an
antdote"
ooh, my precious son!" cried Daphne,
" how oo'&d you?"
She looked in her book of sntidotes but
could not find one antidote for a Giants head.
90, H1neas, my dear, dear sen," groaned
0anbua - there il noautidote for Giants head