The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-08-23

$50 my mother is dead!'' exclaimed the
girl the tears filling her eyes. ..Oll
Giant Blackhead killed her, and this
Greenhead Is his brother. There he comes
now. Oh, why did you not fly in time
You cannot escape him now"
AS she spoke they saw a towering figure
come down to the shore of the lake with a
large deer on his shoulder and d conDle Of
wild turkeys under his arm. Finding the
boat gone, the giant stepped directly into
the water and began to walk across. As
| soon as he reached the island he began to
shout to Jackabeck, calling him names
| and threatening him with cruel torture.
The young girl chung wildly to the boy,
| begging him to fly
Jackabeck had not forgotten his magic
arrows, and drawing one of them from
his culver he adjusted it and took care
| full aim.
II shall never need it more than now"
he thought "Oh, may it not fail me!''
Then the shaft flew. It struck the
giant in the breast, and in an instant a
flame of fire shot up and enyeloped him
In few seconds a pile of ashes was all
| that was left of the green-headed giant.
Nov you shall be my brother" cried
the girl joyously, land will tell you the
way to heaven, because you have deliv-
cred me from my worst enemy" w..
THE way to heaven? What's that?"
asked Jackabeck, surprised.
That's what the giant called it, though
he could never quite get there" said
Amata. He tried Il great many times,
but never quite succeeded"
That is funny, anyway" said the boy.
However, l shall try, and, perhaps, I
may beat the giant -.
So the girl showed him a tall tree,
whose top seemed to go up among the
| clouds Jackabeck mounted this. and
when he got to the highest branch he
blew upon it., which made it shoot out
and grow up higher. He climbed to the
| on continually. ! s.% ~.
In the end he came to a very pleasant
country, where there were. green fields
and trees and flowers, and rivers that
swarmed with fish. After he had ex-
amined the new country he returned to
the tree and descended to the earth, for
he wished to tell Amata of his success
and have her go back with him.
AS he came down the tree he stopped
occasionally to build wigwams in the
| branches as places of rest for himself
| and his sister in ascending.
Amata at first was loath to go, being
afraid to climb so tall a tree, but at last
| she assented, and, taking little nephew
| who had been left in her charge, the
were tired of climbing they stopped to
rest at the wigwams that Jackabeck had
made among the branches in coming
down.
The girl was as much pleased as her
brother with the new country, and Jack
abeck, not caring to have visitors, reached
down and broke off the highest stem of
the tree as low as he could.
They had not been there a long time
when Jackabeck went into the woods to
set traps~aS he had been accustomed to
90 on the earth below, in hopes to catch
some game. One morning as he went
to see what he had caught he saw a
great glowing ball of fire in one of the
traps. 1t was so very hot and bright
that the boy did not dare to go near it,
but ran back to tell his sister of the
prodigy.
."There's big fire in one of my traps"
said he,- "and it's so fierce and blazing
that it frightened me-"
1T must be the sun, Jackabeck," SAID
the girl. "He was probably wandering
about in the night and so got caught.
You must go and let him out as quick
as you can"
But Jackabeck could not do this him
self. So he hunted around and found q
little mouse, and he blew upon him and
made him SO large and strong that he
could go and open the trap and let the
sun 90 free.
The accident delayed the sun so long,
however, that he failed to rise that day,
and so the people of the earth lost day
and spent the time during the interval in
darkness wondering what had happened
to the sun.
AS for Jackabeck he never came back
to earth, again, but since his day there
has never been any giants.-Fred. Wynn
Colby in Philadelphia Times.