Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-17

giants brother was to be there the mora
to fight any one that would fight for the
kings daughter, and she told him he should
go, for 1t would be we'll worth seeing. But,
'Och,' says he, "I'll find something better
worth doing-IM not go near It," So, after
his supper, to bed he went, and he was up
again early betimes in the morning, and
making pretend he was going to hunt, he
went off to the castle again. This day the
crowd was bigger than ever, and when
the giant appeared, and If the first giant
was tar-rific, this one was twice over
double as tar-rific, and he could get
no man with the heart to venture to
fight him, till at length my brave kings
son had to step out this day again and en-
counter him. Well, II the fight was hard
the first day, 1t was this day double as hard,
and the giant gave him his fill Of 1t, and he
gave the giant his fill of it, till at long and at
last when it was going hard on him he takes
one spring right up into the air and landing
down with his sword on the giants neck he
cuts the head right off from the body and
then again disappeared in the crowd, and
after a while's hunting on the hills he came
home with plenty of game; and this might,
Just like the night before, when the old
woman was giving him his supper she made
great wonders of telling him of the t~ar-rific
fight that day again between the strange
gentleman and THE giant, and how he killed
the giant and then disappeared right up
into the sky before all their eyes. And
then she said that on the mora the third
and last giant was to fight, and she said this
would be a wonderful day entirely, ana
he shall surely go to see 1T, and to see the
wonderful gentleman that killed the other
two giants. But "och." says he. I'll find
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to look at him or it, And the third morn
ing again he went to the castle, pretending
that it was to hunt he was going; and the
third giant appeared, and hdm far more tar
rifio than the first two put together. And
to make a long story short, my brave kings
son and himself went at It, and the fighting
was the most odious" ever was witnessed
before OF since, and the short and long of
1t was that he sprung up at length into the
air, and coming down on the giants neck
out off his head, and then again disappeared
In the crowd and went home; but as he was
disappearing, doesn't one of the kings men
snap the shoe off his foot; so home he had
to go that night wanting one shoe. Next
day. and for the eight days after, the king
had all his men out securing the country far
and wide to see If they could find the owner
of the shoe; but though they focked to the
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the shoe At. And every one OF these days
the kings son was out with his Ally, his
hawk and his hound on the hills hunting.
At last one day the old woman went to the
castle and told how she had a ledger that
come home the night the last giant was kilt
with one boot wanting. And the next day
the king came there himself with a carriage
and 1our horses and took the kings son
away to his castle, and there when they tried
on him the boot, doesn't 1t fit him like as II
Vt was made on his foot; and the king gave
him his daughter, and the marriage was
performed, and all the whole gentry and no.
bility of all the land was invited in to a big
faist. But, 10 and behold ye, on that yer,
night when all the spree was go
ing on, and the fun was at Its
height. dn the ballroom, and all
were as busy as bees In the kitchen, what
would ye have of 1t but at that very time
doesn't there come to the kitchen window
a hare, and puts in its head and commences
licking a plate Of some particular nice dainty
that was cooling inside the window, and
the cook was so enraged at one OF her very
best dishes being destroyed that she got
up in a passion and put off all her sorts
and said 1t was a nice how do we do that
with a hairo in the house that killed giants
a dirty hare would be allowed to come in
and spoil her cooking. This word soon
came to the groom's ears In the ballroom,
and though the king and the queen and
the bride and all the nobility and gentry
tried to persuade him against 1t he
wouldn't stop. and there was no holding
of him. He said he wouldn't stop two
nights. or eat two meals meat in the one
house till he would catch that hare and
bring II back dead or alive. So mounting
his hlly, and taking with him his hawk
and his hound, he started off hot-foot in
pursuit. He pursued the hare all that night
and all the next day, and at evening late
he drew on a little wee house he saw in a
hollow, and he went in, for he was tired,
and determined to rest that night. He
wasn't long in, and he was warming him
self at the fire, with his hound, his hawk
and his hlly, when. he hears a noise at the
wee window OF the house, and there he sees
q dirty wizened old nag OF a woman, trem-
bling and shaking dow TO her very finger
tips. 'och, och. och, it's cold, cold, cold"
says she, and her teeth rafting in her
head. why don't you come In and warm
yourself?" says he. "och, / can't, 4 can't"
SAYS she. "I'm afraid of them wild ami