Show II I I THE GIANTS GIANT'S PAINT AINT BOX Once upon a time he the giants and thi thu got Into a big quarrel Now I almost everyone thinks that all all all' giants are bad and all fairies fairies good b but t they ey eyare are sadly mistaken in this case cas cast For these giants of whom I 1 am speaking were really truly kind fellows whose hearts heart were as big as their their bodies They dearly loped loed to do a good deed But the naughty or wood fairies as some c call them were always playing pranks to get these huge men in trouble Th They y would steal their spoons upset their milk throw stones at their chickens chickens' and In every way make lIf life miserable for tor the kind I giants At this time there were trees flowers flowers flow flow- ers era and grass in the world but they Were all aU one color color color-a a dead bluish white The giants saw the lovely tints in the sky at sunset so they set to work to get get- some of the dyes by gathering gre great t bags of clouds bolling bolling boning boll boll- ing them down and making colors Into paints placed in an immense immense im tin- I mense box box- Nixie who was the chief hief sprite In mischief among the formed a aPlan aplan aplan I plan to the box of paints and the giants hearing of It posted a notice notice no notice no- no tice which said sald saith I Dont Touch Touch This This Paint But the only laughed and ran away to think up trouble I h have ve ItI exclaimed Nixie as they all sat breathless on a log by the pool When all is quiet tonight we will wUl steal e each tube of color and go out all aU over the world and paint things up Wont Won't the giants be mad to find their tints all gone and all this lovely white world shining In every shade All the oth other i- i Joined in the shou shout of Joy at the plan so It was agreed at 11 that night they would meet with ropes and bars about the big paint box which stood in a acorn corn corner cornar r of the giants' giants garden Promptly at the chosen hour they gathered In Ina a mob around the huge box and ten of the largest pried off the top It fell teU with a clatter clatter datter clat dat- ter but the giants did not wake up I I Sleep long Jong and sleep tight For when the he morning brings the light I Your eyes will see a sorry sight I This was the song the bad little sung softly knowing th 9 good giants slept so soundly that they would not awake awake- Now ten men men get hold of each tube ordered Nixie Carry them out and pour the colors on the whole country Let the green tube fell fellows ws empty their paint on the grass and trees the yellow ones on some of or the field tl flowers l on the wheat and other grains The blu blue red rod pink purple are all to be us used d to c lor all the shrubs every bloom every blossom we can find and it if by morning this old world is not a funny sight it wont won't be our fault So they set to work by bythe bythe bythe the hundreds like bees swarming into the box and dragging out the paint tubes which were loaded up on ten men They spread out ut all over the country and with long Ing spraying machines machines ma ma- chines s threw the paint on the entire Jan land The greep green greep was emptied od orf the grass rass and trees and on the stems leaves and trees of all an plants Lilies and roses which had been snow white where yellow pink and nd red Violets got the purple tint All over the fields l s colors were running and what had been a white world was now one vast plain of glowing tints of or every hue By the time that the dawn crept up the east the threw away the empty tubes and hid In th the woods Th Then n the good giants yawned and androse androse androse rose to get water for tor their bath Ho ho wife come out and see the sight cried one ne of the giants when he stepped out of ot his home See what has happened in the night Th The prix les les' have taken our our- paint but they have made the whole land beautiful Look at the trees the flowers the fields of grain grain all all are are gorgeous In our pretty tints When the bad saw that that- they had done a good deed and that the kind giants were were delighted at the new appearance of of- things they felt so much afraid of themselves themselves tor for having tried to be mean that they held a meeting and and decided that tha never again would they play any any tricks I 1 am very glad however said Nixie that we did this one for now we have a world that Is far tar more beautiful than the old white one one Copyright 1918 by the McClure Me-Clure Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate New York City |