Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 48
— fora Giant—and present-ly turned to PrinceTesso, and said: I dont, after all,quite like the idea ofboiling your RoyalHighnesss uncle in oil,of destroying a numberof presumably gallantwarriors, and of crush-ing a still larger num-ber of simple citizensunder my heels likeso many beetles;so if your… … HE CLIMBED TO THE GIAN promise he had made, or he would be agraced Giant for evermore. / They argued the matter for sometime, but the Prince was firm,and finally the Giant hadto give up all hope of shak-ing the royal resolution.But when the Princehad gone to sleep on abed of dried leaves, theGiant…
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