The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26

the peril of your life # to go in that
stable?"
Poor Jack pleaded all ie could. and
said he did not mean TO, but the Curl
osity got the best of him, and he
thought he would open the dOOr and
peep in it.
Says the giant. mo man before ever
opened that stable door and lived to
tell it, and you, too, would be a dead
man this minute only for one thing.
Your fathers father did my father a
great service once. 1 am the man who
eve fOrgets a good thing, and for that
service" says he, Il give you your life
and pardon you this time, but if -Ou
ever do h like again, you won't live"
Jack he promised that surely and
surely he would never do the like again.
His supper he brought that night. and
to bed, and on early morning again the
giant had him up, and, Jack" says he,
Il must be off to the other end of the
world again and fight the Giant of the
Four Winds. Do you now your duty
to look after this house and place and
set everything in order about it, and go
everywhere you like, only don't open
the stable door, OF go into it on the
peril of your life"
Il will mind all that" says he.
Then that morning again the giant
visited the stable before he went away.
and after the giant had gone, and to
his work went Jack, wandering through
the house, cleaning and setting every
thing in order about it. and out into the
yard he went and fixed and arranged
everything out there, except the stable.
He stood before the stable door a good
while this day. and SAYS he to himself,
Il wonder how the mare and the bear
are doing, n what h giant done
when he went in TO see them, I would
do a great deal to know" says he. 81
will take a peep in"
ITtO the ring Of the door he put his
finger, ana turned it and looked in and
there he saw the mare and the bear
standing like the day before, and Meth
er of them eating. In Jack steps, land
no wonder, poor creatures" a V he.
you dOn't eat. and that is the way the
giant ~blundered," he says. after he saw
the meat before the and the hay
before the bear this time also.
Jack then changed the food. putting
the hay before the mare Ind the meat
before the bear, as it should be, and
very soon both the mare and the bear
were eating heartily. and then Jack
went out. He closed the door and when
he did his finger stuck in the door. and
pull and struggle as Jack did he could
not get it out.
"Och. och. Ocn," says Jack. says he,
II am a dead man today surely"
He hoops out his knife and cuts off
his finger and left it there, and twas
there when the giant came home that
night.
"Well Jack. my fine boy" says he,
how have 0 got On today?"
"Oh, finely. finely" says Jack, says
he, holding his hands behind his back
all the same.
"ShOw me your hands. Jack SAYS
the giant. till I see if you wash them
and keep them clean always" and when
Jack showed up his hands the giant got
black in the face with rage, and says
he. didn't l forgive your ffe yester-
day for going into that stable, and you
promised to do it again, and here
/ n you there again"
The giant ranted and ragged for a
long time. and then, says he, Because
your fathers father did my father such
a good turn, I suppose 1 will have to
spare your life this second time: but
Jack says he, IF you should live to
be a hundred years, and spend them all
in my service. and if you should ever
. again open that door. and put your foot
into my stable, that day. says he, you
Will be a dead man as sure as there is
a head on you. Mind that"
Jack, he thanked the giant very much