The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-25

The Giant OF Loeb Lein.
A kings son met a giant while out hunt
ing i'm the hills, who invited the young
prince to play n game at cards. They
played for two estates and the prince won.
The next day they played again for 500
oxen with golden horns and silver hoofs
belonging to the giant against the princes
more ordinary cattle, and the prince won
again. ON the third day the prince staked
his head against the giants and lost. A
year and a day was the time fixed for the
delivery Of the forfeited head.
The young man went home sad and
weary, and while he was still lamenting
he disappeared and went roaming aim
lessly over the kingdom. One night he
entered q small house, inside OF which,
sitting at a warm fire, was an old woman.
Every tooth i'm her head was as long as n
staff. She made him welcome, gave him
supper and put him to bed. The next
morning she gave him a ball OF thread
with instructions to throw 1t down N
follow il as IL unwound before him, wind
ingit up as he went. That night il brought
him to the house of another old
with teeth as long as q crutch. There also
he found supper, lodging and breakfast.
After breakfast the woman said to him
"You were with my younger sister night
before last, you were with me last night;
III " "a oS . sAy
And she rave him another ball OF thread
and bade him follow Il until evening. The
kings son found the third old woman, but
Mr.. Curtin forgot to tell us about her teeth.
Each Of them was probably as long as q
pike-staff. This old woman treated him
after informing him that the Giant OF
Loeb Lem, TO whom he had lost his head,
whose castle was near by, had seven hun-
dred spikes around his castle all filled
with the heads Of kings or sons OF kings,
except one, CAV him his instructions for
the day. which she babe him follow ODE.
diently IL he would save his own head
from occupying the seven hundrcdth
spike.
The giant had three daughters, who
went every day mt 400 to battle in n lake
near the castle. One wore o blue, an
other a white and the third a yellow lily.
The kings son, according to instructions,
stole the clothes of Yellow Lily, who
promised to rescue him from his impend-
ing danger for their restoration IL she
could. He restored the clothes, and that
night reported for duty to the giant at the
castle. As the kings son refused supper
soon as the giant was asleep Yellow Lily
took charge OF b youth, putting him
back in the tank just before the giant en-
tered in the morning.
"Are you here, son OF the King OF
Erin 2" the giant asked.
81 am" the kings son answered.
"well, come out; ! have a great work
for you to-day"
The task imposed upon the kings son
was To cleanse a tab occupied by five
hundred horses that had not been cleaned
s~lumber-pin that had been lost in the
stable by the giants great grandmother
BY the aid of yellow Lily the stable wa
cleansed and the pin found.
That night the kings son was again
sent TO bed i'm the tank, but Yellow Lily
saved him from drowning as before
Finding him alive in the morning the
giant ordered him to thatch the stable
with birds feathers, every feather OF
different color and kind. giving him Q
whistle with which TO call the birds. Blu
the birds failed TO respond until yellow
Lily interviewed, and then the stable wa
matched in a twinkling.
The third days task was more difficult
thar either of the others. IL wal TO climt
a tree 500 feet In height, without q limt
and covered with glass. to obtain an eRS
in the nest at the top OF the tree Tor TIM
Lily could only aid the kings son b,
being killed and dissected so that he
bones could be used as steps for climbing
the tree.
When you are climbing the tree" sais
Yellow Lily, ''they will stick TO the glas
as II they had grown out of IL; but wheI
you are coming down and have put you
foot on each n they will drop into you
hand when you touch them. Be sure ant
stand on each bone; leave none un
touched-if you do IL will stay behind"
The kings son followed instructions
including those for bringing yellow Lii
back to life. but he failed to touch th
bone of her little toe. which rename