Show r. r What the Holland Giant Did for Hans and 1 i By Br Maud land Walker Hans Hans Ilan and anil Wilhelmina were wore II Hide tt 1 Hollanders brother and aud sister r. r Hans was wn 10 years cars old oM and Willie Millie as she 0 was called for tor short was two years his Junior They lived with their mamma and aud papa In a n tiny and quiet village near the son sea Only the lIw man many strong dykes and great windmill pumps kept the rolling sea from fron rom claiming the land lanel on nn which they lived There Thell were no mountains nor high wooded hills hill around about for them thorn t to climb over 11 J Everywhere th the theland land jay fay water soaked and amI Hat flat Often Orten would woul Hans and Willie Villie g go hand in hand down toward the sea I which seemed to say my strange things t to them m For POI hours the they sit a anear as nest near to the rolling water r as they could i get Jet and listen and listen to Its voter voice It tells us to come and go o across to another country said Hans IIama to VII Vil Villie lie 11 one day as aR they sat In their theil fa n- n place looking out nut over o the vas vast iY body of mysterious wat water I Dont yo you ht hear It ay sty Come Com Hans IIama and mina Little Willie Villie bent nt her ears ars to listen Y Yes I think It says something of th the I. I Sort agreed she Shall we wo get a Yr boat beat some somo lay day and atHI sail Mil away We cant can't get d a boat said Hans Han i. i 1 We e t too J And sa are O poor ou our ourt t l mamma mma and papa JH haven't nt the money mone i r. r to tn JI give us to get et a boat neither r A. A L Willie made n no reply but turned turnell s. s 0 J tP f. f L t i t Sm S- S j 5 I c 1 m I. I ii r If 1 MJ l f I r f N 21 i tl I to t CI 0 ft i I her gaze gare on the line of or distant blue I Isly sky shy whets hert It t dipped Into the tho bluer sea ea Then she heaved a n. little sigh of lon longIng long long- Ing Just then a heavy hea step was heard behind them and looking back the children taw saw a sight which made their blood run cold Coming at nt mile length strides acro across ea the country was a t mighty giant so M tall that his head was quite out of sight among the white clouds cloud linos dropped dl himself b below Jo some W weeds and mill marsh grass glast whispering to Willie Alike to do the same Mme But the giants giant's powerful eye e detected them as th they lay hl hidden like little specks behind the poor we weeds ls and ancI grass gr Then be he bent hent his h head ad to within a quarter of ofa ofa ufa a mile of their faces and amI said in ht a voice surprisingly gentle considering its terrible volume and roar roar- You need have no fear of me little little- on ones s Im I'm tho the Holland giant and Ive I've roamed about over O Its soil soli for centuries centuries ries Im I'm about SOO OO or 01 years ears old and am beginning to feel as though I were not quite so o young as 1 u used to tobe tobe h be or 01 years ug ago But Dut I am I still quite young oung enough nough to unde understand the thc longing of little children n like your yom selves elve As s I was sitting on a 1 peak of the Alps a few days dayo ago I caught your OUI wish as It was wafted upward on the nit all You both hoth lon longed cd to see something more of this world which h Is so n very erv f big to you rou Am m I not right t As AI he a asked led the qu question lion the giant stroked I o the top of Hans Hans' head with the I ti m r f of lifo little On cr thus 1 n. n g L n g the little fellows fellow's confidence and banishing ban- ban his fear foar m Raising his hits head lInn looked 11 away ay up tip Into the great smiling face above e him and amI saw w two clear elem blue eyes which at that distance seemed to be each as large Jargo as the till moon Yes sir weve we've been heen very cly very anxious to togo togo tojo go jo OV over I both land Jand and water but we hn have ve no money to travel In n the coaches and none to build tulle a boat with Upon Ullon hc hearing her brother address the he giant little Wilhelmina dared lared brin bring hel herself elf from flom the weeds cds and ind grass gras and find Pl peeped up at the towering towerIng tower- tower Ing tig figure which cast st Its hadow hallow all about them and ancI cut out the sun un SeeIng SeeIng See- See Ing ng the almost gentle smile on the giants Manx's countenance she she like like Hans felt oil confidence In him and ancl Joined Inthe in inthe the lie conversation Yes Mister lIster Giant Glunt weve we've wanted anted so much to go o across the he country toward the east cast and ancl see what strange e sights are all there Then we vc WISH VI very very much to go across tit the le sea to the country called Great Greal Britain she said In her clear little treble reble which must have ha sounded quite Ike like the of or a bird to the giants giant's huge uge earAh earAh ear Ah ha he answered Then you youlay rou roumay may lay satisfy those longings my little littlefi fi lends i Just beC because use I 1 am a giant c does not signify that thal I am Ill disposed toward oward sma small people The fact I Ir Is I Iel Iet get el et vel very lonel lonely without companions of an any ny kind You see see I am the only great Ial giant golant now In tho world Others that hat go b by the namo name are mere dwarfs compared to me So I must pass the time line awn away in doln doing good to others I live But Hut If IC y you u wish to go ro with Ith me come step on m my fingers lingers and Ill I'll raise you ou to my shoulders where you ou will find quite a space to sit on or oro orto orto to o run about and play while we travel At t night Ill I'll put Jut you ou In one of m my pockets to sleep Oh that will be lovely declared Hans but hut held back t tI I O I I I i r i 11 a jr I I d ll ll'S S r rJ rT j f J Q T C Cr L 2 I C r t. t i I f 4 P- P r Ah the battle hattle was fierce With face ash ashen asben en gra gray 1 m t For they fought all nil day day But Dut one ono was unhurt And AmI at nt night when oer o'er In a all 11 that fierce fight Tr 0 J 0 On n the red red Held field 1 there fists la lay 1 Im I'm m SUI sure surd e you can find him hum Full man many a n soldier For hes he's plainly In sight Dont you want to go o little one asked ed the giant gently gentl of mina Yes sit sir h but I want my mamma and papa to go too she faltered not daring to look up into tho the giants giant's face for fear she would read rend his re refusal refusal refusal re- re to grant rant her wish Why of course assented tho the giant I have not nol told you yet that I am a fah fairy giant But such I am I have the power to do man many wonderful wonderful won won- things s. s If It I wish to I can can cani i raIse also myself Into the air all an and walk wi on the clouds cloud That Is wh why so few ew people havo have over ovel seen me But nut eh even the life o of a f L fairy comes omes to an ari end sometime an and it is my wish to make people happy while I have life liCe I Iam Iam Iam am endowed with th the power el to grant golant three wishes every h hundred years You and your OUI parents ma may have three wishes Then I shall make the wish to have ha papa palla and ancl mamma go with us said said And I make c the wish to go round round the the world said HansAn Hans And An well we'll allow your parents to- to decide lecile together about the tho third wish said the giant Then he hc told lold the children to run to their house and Inform In Inform In- In form tonn their parents of what had happened happened hap hap- Within half an hour the little ones came running back with their astonished astonished as as- parents following Tho They could see ee the tho giant glans from their house and their had hall been beun roused rowen before th the children had hall repented their tI story On Qu approaching r nearer the tho giant Slant they thew saw that the they hall had nothing to fear feal for flu H he sat Rat down on the ground and hl his head was low enough for thc them m to read rall his countenance countenance coun coun- which was full of kindness try My oy wife agrees agree's to let me have havethe havethe havethe the third wish said the childrens children's father and after some words of greeting had passed between him and ancl the giant And I wish to have myself myself myself my my- self and mal family with family with our few possessions pos pos- sessions sessions carrIed carried Into a better countr country country coun coun- tr try wh where lc the sea Is not fore er bathing battling battling bat bat- hing with us Every Evory little tittle while a dyke near us breaks through and my crops are arc Hooded and ancl ruined we escaping barely baiely with out our lives I If you Ou can cnn grant my wish good giant we wc shall never ne stop thanking you As tho the good Hollander spoke e tears gleamed gloomed in his blue eyes ejes The rhe hardworking hardworking hard hard- working little wife and mother also wiped the from her her eyes eeN and said Yes Yos good giant If Jf you youcan youcan youcan can h help lp u us uy wo Ue o bo be your ul debtors debtors' I for Cor life liCe Come and point out to me the things s you want to take along said the giant taking half haIr a step tep toward the house half a mile away Hans S sr hurriedly picketed out the things he wished to take along which was I everything except the land The giant put Iut the barns machinery grain rain I I I cow eow horses sheep p and pigs Into nn In of his ft a poe pocket put tho th house with all II Us its furnishing furnishing- tin th provisions provisions even even the pla playthings things h Ings of the children Into children Into another pocket then h he lifted the rhe family of foul four to toI his Ills great shoulders which seemed like being on th the top of oC a CI level mountain mountain moun moun- tain and away he tie strode r reaching a most beautiful country a thom thousand and miles away awny before the sun rose the next morning Then he found a beautiful tract of land Innel unoccupied where he set down Iown the family nUl and placed the house house just Just as it had been heen In perfect order upon order upon a lovely ely knoll where One line shade trees stretched their thell boughs over Its roof The barn wathon wathen wa wal walthen then thon put in place behind the tho house hots' beside a trickling spring which formed a little brook and ran Ian or oi across the fields The stock wan Val turn turned 1 out to drink and ancl graze and the children and their parents went IntI ecstacy over their new now home Now friend raid ald the giant speaking to liens Hans sr whatever you yoi put into the soli soil here will crow immaturity im te maturity In abundance Y YoU Yott U will nol not be IH poor pOOl again if you Oll are industrious I and cheerful And now that you meso nr me so 80 nicely fixed 1 I shall wait till you OU got your cross crops In then Ill I'll return ant nn ant take tako you all around th the world to fulfil fulfil ful tul- fil m the wl wish h of this dear little boy lIoy And the giant stooped and antI stroked the flaxen hair hall of oC little Hans Mans who In tn turn affectionately ly stroked d the point of or the giants giant's smallest finger which was was as large as nan liens wrist All tho the spring Hans sr 81 sr anti and his good food wife worked In the fields and ana raised their crops Tho The stock grew fat and amI Increased in numbers and ald happiness smiled upon them in their new home which was teas so secure from the sea In Tn the fall fail after the tho crops had been garnered the sky y I grew cloudy one day lay an and In a few minutes along came the giant elan stepping a l mile at al a stride It Il was his shadow which had hOll come before the sun and antI made It Il appear shad shady lIe He paused at the Ow foot of or th the knoll an and Hans liens and Wilhelmina ran to greet him They climbed lImb d up his great legs mount mounted d upon hl his shoulders should should- ers and kissed a spot on his great acre broad cheeks And the giant was as happy happ to see them n nis ns they were to see him Now we are ale off to take taJ a 1 trip around the world said Mt Mr Giant Where are arc papa and mamma But Dut ho lie had hardly asked the que question when from the tho house came carne Hans Bans sr r. r with his happy happ little wife at his heels The They screamed their greetings up to tho the giant who bent down clown to smile and return In his voice of or thunder thunder- which sometimes made macle the earth tremble tremble their their friendly salutation Within a short time tune all was In readiness to start on their tour A worth worthy old couple was hired to sta stay and ancl look Jook aft aCt after r the farm while the family were away awny The trip on the giants giant's shoulders around the earth pro e proved to be the greatest trip ever made by mortal Whenever er the they came to a place In Inthe Inthe inthe the ocean too deep for the giant to wade he ho would woul stretch himself and swim carrying the delighted family am II on his back where the they would woul stroll from his shoulders to his waist lookIng lookIng lookIng look- look Ing Into the great d deep ep Sometimes the gaint balut would stretch his army like Ilke wings and carr carry them through the clouds allowing them to look 1001 from hl his shoulders over the earth as the they sailed Failed along along- They were not gone one from home homo many months for the giant traveled I very fast making greater reater speed than any express train has ever vel made matl since then In the spring th they returnee returned in II n tn JI t t tu It I nt l. oI Int n t u and anil lid Sit s' and plan n t fur furth r th the lh lIw giant glan saving a ing an af- af fc donate fall to them after r rh h which ieh he hI departed to tu never ver r be bt seen again by hy mortal man maO And as 09 the years yeats rolled on nn the Hollanders grew more and more more- pi tIo prosperous rotis never nover forgetting forgetting for fot getting to tn thank the th giant fairy airy who had done don so much for them Often Orten they would run Iun out of or the house when a cloud darkened the UH sky with the hope of or seeing Ing their mighty friend nd taut But I such stich a pleasure 3 was never Iw to be theirs again For the times were beginning I to change and fairies both hoth small email and were dying off oft to U live no more ave are In song snug and ancl story But Dur such were the exp experiences of kite Ittle liens Ham anti and many hun hun- of y years als al's ago while white the last burl of ot othe he giant clant fairies was still In existence nd ind to this thia day the descendants l of ot Inns lans am and Willie tell to their own lithe lit Ht- lo he ones the wondrous tale of If how V they a ame me to be of ot another land than Hol- Hol and |