Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, Robinson, Charles, ill · New York : Brentano's · leaf 73
THE SELFISH GIANT VERY afternoon, as theywere coming from school,the children used to goand play in the Giantsgarden. It was a large lovelygarden, with soft greengrass. Here and there over the grass stoodbeautiful flowers like stars, and there weretwelve peach-trees that in the spring-time brokeout… … 59 THE SELFISH GIANT and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birdssat on the trees and sang so sweetly that thechildren used to stop their games in order tolisten to them. How happy we are here ! they cried to each other. One day the Giant came back. He hadbeen to visit his friend the Cornish ogre,…
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