Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-28 | Page 7 | The Sandman Stories

THE SANDMAN t STORIES Biggest Giant and the Dwarfs Part Dwarfs Part II It was not long before he She green dwarfs came out of th their ir- ir s and ands s squatted down on the ground and then the one who had spoken to Mrs I said We will weave the cloth eloth for your our husbands husband's co coat t and nd make maice it if you will promise to keep keepit it a secret eret and on no account to tell our j-our our husband hus hus- b band nd that you have seen us Poor little Mrs Gi Giant nt could not make the cloth or the coat Thi This she l knew new and what the biggest giant would do door or or orsay say if she did not she was wa's afraid I to think so she promised the green dwarf to keep the whole if f af r a secret Come back baek tomorrow night after biggest giant blant is said the dwarf and the coat will willbe be rca ready The next night when e biggest giant was soun sound l asleep Mrs Glant crept through the forest to the Side Ide of tt f the mountain an and there ver all the green dwarfs waiting for her and on the ground was a huge green oat You see we have kept our our promise promise promise prom prom- ise said the dwarf who did the talk talk- ing lag Now ow there Is one thing more you must show us the way to yoUr CUI home and let us put the coat over O the biggest biggest biggest big big- gest giant while he is asleep To do this you must o 0 ahead of ofus ofus ofus us and scatter the the- the powder which you ou ou will find in this box over hi his hll fare face ata and andall andall andall all around the room This v. v iII ill keep him asleep until we ve have the coat over him Mrs Giant took th the tha box and went ahead where her her- husband was sleepIng sleep sleep- M ing and scattered the powder and then she beckoned to the green ore en dwarfs and into the room they ran and in n a tew few seconds the coat was over oyer the trie biggest giant covering him head hlad and all Then out of the hous hous' the dwarfs dars ran dragging with them them- frightened ed Mrs Irs Giant for fot or now the oat was Wl there she wondered what she would toll ell her I husband when he aw awake ke for he hal ha had told her ber the coat In mist be bro brown n th the color of dry leaves Before she had tim tun to think moro mor the green dwarfs nad forme I in n a tir- tir ell cle around the hOJ house I nd md Mrs Glan Gian found herself with them a dwarf holding holding holding hold hold- I ing a hand on either side Then round and roun roun 1 they danced chanting as th they y vent We now have broken en the spell Pf That on us poor poo dwarfs fell Vh l he trove drove us away From rom our home one day An And made us In cues caves to dwell Owell When hen the dwarfs st singing Mrs Irs Giant r. r found I nel that sh she was alone the house ha J il and the forest and the dwarfs an and all all around was green greengrasS grass like velvet while a group of small evergreen trees which looked very much like green U J j aris in the moonlight stood silently nearby She had hardly taken in all this strange change when instead of being Mrs Giant she found she was as a fairy fary again flitting over over- the grass toward the dell where the fairies hod their night nig-ht revels When the q que queen n and the idIS sister s sa saw the vanished i d fairy ar they did not say sav saya a a. word but made a place for her Inthe in inthe inthe the dancing ring and went on with their revel for the queen know knew she had been punished enough and would never again stay slay out late when she be at home with her sisters and her queen Copyright 1021 by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate N New w York City