The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-01

the. peril of your life not to go in thai
stable?'i
Poor Jack pleaded all he 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 dead
man this minute only for one thing.
| Your fathers father did my father a
great service once. I am the man who
never forgets good thing, and for that
service" says he, Il give you your life
and pardon you this time, but if you
ever do the 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
4 to bed, and on early morning again the
| giant had him up, and, Jack" says he,
81 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, or go into it on the
peril of your life"
81 viii mind all that" says he
Then that morning again the giant
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 good
while this day, and says he to himself,
Il wonder how the mare and the bear
are doing, and what the giant done
ha TcTlt in tn
do great deal to know" says he. II
will take a peep in"
Into the ring of the door he put his
finger, and 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, and
no wonder. poor creatures, says he,
you don't eat, and that is the way the
giant Numbered" he says, after he saw
the meat before the mare and the hay
before the bear this time also.
Jack then changed the food, putting
the hay before the mare tnd 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.
'DCn. OCn, OCQ, says JdCh, says Ies
81 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 you got on today?"
"Oh. finely, finely" says Jack, says |
he. holding his hands behind his back |
all the same.
show me your hands, Jack saws
the giant. "till / see if you wash them |
and keep them clean always" and when |
lack showed up his hands the giant got |
black in the face with rage. and says |
he didn't ] forgive your life yester-
dav for going into that stable, and you
never to do it again, and here
I find you there again"
The giant ranted and ragged Tor a
long time, and then, says he, Because
vnIfr fathers father did my father such
2 good turn, 1 suppose l will have TO
snare your life this second time: but
lack" saws he, 'if you should live to
he a hundred years, and spend them all
In NV service, and if you should ever
= - in omen that door, and put your foot
MO INV stable, that day" says he, you
Iii he a dead man as sure as there is
J head on you. Mind that.
Lack he thanked the giant very much