Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-17
THE GIANTESS.

Once there lived u Giant who had
daught and OF course, she was n
giantoss.
The Giant, like all others Of his kind
carried off all the people that came in his
path, but his daughter always managed,
while her father was asleep, to rescue all
the men, rs she wished very much TO
SCI married.
She thought she might win a husband
if she could keep him locked up long
enough on bread ard water, for she knew
that men would promise ANYTHING when
they wanted a go dinner.
But all the men she locked up had
said they would starve before they would
have for wife the big daughter OF a Giant.
Now tho Giantcss was "a very VAN
person, and while she might have been
pretty II she had been person of ordinary
her huge body.
There WAS one thing about her though,
and that was her hair, which fell all
around her in golden waves reaching to
her feet.
One day her father brought in a Prince,
intending 10 hold him until his father, a
rich man. should offer his Kingdom as o
ransom for his sons return.
When the Giantess saw the handsome
youth she made up her mind ut once
10 carry him off to her tower and make
him promise 10 marry her, for Of all things
she most wished TO be Princess
80 while her father was taking a nap
she picked up the Prince IN one hand and
carried hum away.
She first locked him in room with
out any food for whole day, and the
next morning. when she was sure he
was very hungry, she carried him with
her OWN hands very nice breakfast.
The Prince was wise, even II he had
been reared in luxury, and he saw at once
that the Glantess was a er ain creature.
So he praised the food and otld her
he was sure she had cooked il, for no one
but beautiful woman could cook such
dainty food.
Then he told her he had never seen
such beautiful hair, and he wished he
could sec II at its full length. for he was
sure that no lady of his fathers court
had hair that could be compared with hers.
This pleased the Giantess so much
that she at once let down her wonder
full hair. and the Prince exclaimed that
nothing would make him happy but to
have thick dock of her tresses.
The GianteSs was sure she had at last
won n husband, and she gladly cut from
her head q heavy. long piece OF her golden
hair
That night when the GiantesS and
the Giant slept the Prince fastened the
hair to the window of the tower and LEI
himself down t. the ground and escaped
TO his home
When the GianteSs came m N the morn
ing and found the Prince had gone she
Was, of course, very angry, but when she
saw her hair, which ne had pretended 10
admire, had made a rope for HIM 10 escape,
her anger knew no bounds.
She raved and tore her beautiful hair
until her father, thinking she had lost her
senses, ran down the mountain so fast
that he forgot the ocean at the bottom,
and plunged in and was lost.
The GianteSs kept on tearing her hair
until none was left. and when it was all
gone from her head she began to shrlvel
up. and at last she became Sd small that
the wind blew her away
But on the edge of the Mountain,
overhanging the Ocean, can I've seen a
face in the rock ike that OF 4 giantess
with streaming hair, and on stormy
nights the sailors always keep far
from that rock. for they can hear what
sounds like the cries of the Giantess still
bemoaning the lost Prince.