Show THE MAIDENS CHOICE T two w 0 youths once lived la in a country town to 14 A and nd one was a giant fair with a saxon v kings golden crown and a blacksmiths muscles smooth and d brown when he be made his right ana am bare the other youth was of dapper site so slender and short was he be that he found small favor in maidens ess exas and the giant boasted in merry wise 1 I could lay him across my knee these twain both courted the village bell but bat short was the raea they ran at the giants 1 feet the maiden tell rell and the little man though he be pleaded well naught more than her pity won they in arched away to the wars one day in haste baste tor for the battles van tan and the people cheered when the giant gy gay strode stoutly past for the distant tray fray and they smiled at the man but the earliest ball by fab ceman aped one drop from the war blaek black skies passed safely over the head and the giant who stood behind tell fail eal ubi with a bullet between his eyes eye then the little man aan though WA might eight was airm anil and lie be bounded shead ahead of them aa ah and the whole great army followed him till he leapt like a devil lithe and win ua first man oer der the battery wait wail and he bo planted the tag sag ot of his country there while the routed enemy ran and the legions roared as it floated fair on the dusky waves of sulphurous air t anres cheers chears for the little loan 11 1 oh ob I 1 do not know and I 1 cannot say may wb what at the giant might have done f nut but rm im sure the maiden baldea will weep alwy alway for her lover shot in the first ot of the tray and dead ere his bis ia ama was won for war Is a field 0 of chance you know let him dodge dodee tho the bullets who can but love Is a garden where fancies blow and the form of a giant ilsk mikea es larger abba than the soul of a little man I 1 |