The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-21
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asked him tho same question, and he
answered with a snarl, just as the old
man and the old woman had done, that
tiara was the fairest.
The sisters were so jealous and angry
that they resolved TO get rid of their
sister. SO they inveigled her into
Itrimobe's gardens to steal his vegeta-
bles and when she was gathering them
the giant caught and held her.
"Ha! 1 caught you. little thief"
cried the giant. Il will eat you by and
by"
But tiara cried:
oh do not eat me, but make me
your wife"
Well, come along, then" he said,
and she accompanied him home, but
he intended all the time to fatten her
and then eat her.
The two sisters were very much
pleased at the success of their plot,
and told their parents what had hap
pened. how tiara had stolen Itriombe's
vegetables and the giant, in revenge,
had eaten her. And so the old couple
mourned their young daughter as dead.
But all the while the monster was
keeping tiara in his hut. covered with
mats, while he hunted for all kinds of
food that would make her grow in
flesh.
One day when she got to be very
fat and Itriombe happened to be away,
tiara was visited by a little white
mouse which said to her:
"Give me n little rice. tiara, and 1
will give you some good advice"
What advice can you give me?"
asked Ifara.
Let 1triombe devour you tomor-
row."
And is that the advice you give me-"
said tiara. But 1 will give you the
| rice"
She then gave the mouse some rice,
and the little creature said:
Run away while you can. and take
an egg, a broom, a small cane and a
smooth round stone and go south
| wards"
Tiara lost no time in setting off with
| the things the mouse had told her
to take, leaving a plantain tree stem in
bed and the door locked. She had not
been gone long when the giant return
ed and Knocked at the door,
"Well" he exclaimed, Tiara has got
so fat that she cannot move" and he
burst the door open. and going to the
he'd thrust his speag through the mat,
so that it stuck fast in the plantain
| tree stem.
why, she is so fat that the spear
sticls to her." said Itriombe, and he
pulled the spear out and licked it.
"She is so fat that her blood has no
taste" but as he opened the bed he
saw what was in it.
| Then he ran to the door and shifted
first to the west and then to the south.
"Ah" he cried, there is the little
wretch; I will soon overtake her"
| And he ran along after her with all
speed. tiara saw him coming and
threw down her broom.
| "Oh, my sacred mother" she cried,
"cause this to become a dense thicket,
so that Itriombe cannot overtake me-"
Immediately there grew up a huge
prickly thicket. But the giant got
through that, and tiara threw down
her egg.
"Oh, sacred father, make this egg
a vast pool, so that Itriombe may not
have me-"
A great pool suddenly appeared, but
the giant began to drink this, and ii
gradually disappeared.
Then tiara threw down her small
cane saying:
"By my sacred father and mother be
a great forest"
And a great and impenetrable forest
grew uD, but the giant made short
work of this.
Then she cast down the smooth
round stone and said:
by my sacred father let this be-
come precipice that Itriombe cannot
climb?"
And at once there was a great and
insurmountable precipice in the path
which the giant was unable to climb
Then he called out:
81 have only been joking tiara. Pull
me up and i will not harm you"
tiara leaned over and answered.:
stick your spear in the ground and
1 will help you up"
This the giant did, but when hC
was nearly up he said:
| I'll surely eat you now"
At this the girl let go the rope, an6
Itrimobe fell back and was impaled or
his own spear. And this was the last
Of the giant.
AS for tiara, she remained at the tor
of the precipice until a big bird cam,
and took her away and left her on
tree just above the we'll at her ole
home,
When her father and her mother
came out to draw water from the we'll
she came down and told her story, anC
all three wept for joy. The two eide
sisters were sent away, and tiara mad
their home happy ever after.