| Show the giants help story children f or dy by MARY GRAHAM DONNER W WHAT HAT in the world Is to the trouble asked a it squirrel with a bushy tall who hap happened penell to be near a place in the where lie be saw aw a little cirl girl aa nas crying ily name Is mahalla Mn Ila halla said the little girl and I 1 ive ve lost my ob oh oh I 1 ire ve lost my and then she sobbed and sobbed and say another word pretty foun soon one of them said ats ask our old friend mr giant clant to suggest some way of topping stopping Mali alla from crying 1 oh said mahalla betteen bet veen her sola sots I 1 he may eat me up and stop ay my crying that way dut but ive lost and then she burst out crying I 1 gain doar me no eald said the squirrel who hod had suggested the giant I 1 he lie Is the kindest giant aou ou can CAD IM agn agane all the other squirrels who had come around too to see what hat was the trouble bald sold bushy squirrel Is t perfectly right what he says Is so the giant Is very kind yes continued the first squar ir artl ho had spoken to her or aubhy squirrel as he was called he la Is our best friend he ile lives in a cave cae lust just a little way off and whenever he never no vie go to call on hi him in h he gives as nuts auto to cat eat and bends send home nuts auto to our mothers and fa them ue ile tells ue wonderful ond erful stories 11 of his adventures hes iles as big as the cave but he lie ern curl up way inside where none of the real people will bother him hes ilex afraid if he came forth put him in a cir circus cusand and he docs does love the woods so much why he says continued the squirrel that when the circus cornea comes to the town nearby the only thing he misses about it Is 13 the pea nuts and he isbee for them so we can have them that Is how kind he Is hes bets always thinking of others mahalla had bad stopped crying and had decided the giant must be in iced deed very wonderful if it tho the els were so fond of him and so 10 ehe she let them go Q off oft for hlin lo 10 a few moments they came C ov Is V followed by an n enormous cu giant hopping and jumping alone along fol lot lou owed ed by an enormous giant glant some of the little squires els were perched on till ills shoulders end and ft hen ben ho he mt pat they the hopped and bi ed nil all over him chats me trouble troubles little girl giell he asked and till his voice wai was eo so very kind I 1 I 1 TO ve bet list my elx all wild str Awber rice ries hin mahalla hallit answered anew ered ia sli wild strawberries berries squealed the squirrel squirrels you have cried over choso vo a can get you more than elx six out but they were in a basket of ajeet grass bald sold Ala mahalla halla and euch such a dear friend gave me the banket basket oh aid said mr giant owe we have to find that and he looked all around and don doun behind a fern wa was the missing basket with the strawberries stran berries then the giant and all the squirrels set to nork and gatli red pred ninny many gilld strawberries stra t ran berries so that Nia mahalla Mah ballas alln basket was oiled filled rhen the left them she loved neld lid strawberries straub barou berries errIes nl al most better than any fruit and she was very happy about haing such a lot of them the giant uns happy because he had praed to oni ono more little girl thai that a klant bant could be a atar friend ly soul and the were happy that they had hild been the ones to brine bring all chiq about so go you tec iee although the etory story began wita tears it ended very happily A western newspaper union |
