CARPALIM CATCHES SOME FRESH MEAT 157
THE TROPHY .......... 158
INITIAL W ......... 160
THE KING OF THE THIRSTY PEOPLE 161
THE SOLDIERS TRY PANTAGRUEL'S PASTE .... 163
INITIAL A ........... 165
THE FIGHT WITH LOUPGAROU ....... 167
INITIAL A ......... 172
WELCOME TO PANTAGRUEL .... . 173
'GRANDER AND MlGHTIER THAN EVER!' .... 175
PANTAGRUEL RETURNS .... .176
INITIAL O 178
INITIAL A ..... 180
PANTAGRUEL PICKS HIS SHIPS . . 181
PANTAGRUEL SETS SAIL ... 182
LANDING AT THE ISLE OF PICTURES . . 183
PANTAGRUEL BUYS SOME STRANGE ANIMALS . . 185
THE LAND OF SATIN .... . . 187
INITIAL F .......
PANURGE WANTS A SHEEP . . 189 PANURGE BUYS A RAM . ....
PANURGE THROWS HIS RAM OVERBOARD . . . .193
THE SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS DROWN . 194 INITIAL A ...
THE ACE-OF-CLUBS NOSES . . .197
INITIAL P 199
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GIANT WIDENOSTRILS, THE SWALLOWER OF WINDMILLS . 201
INITIAL T . 203
A STORM COMES ON . 204
PANTAGRUEL HOLDS THE MAST 205
A SEA BREAKS OVER PANURGE 206
LAND IN SIGHT 20T
IT WAS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON ...... 208
INITIAL T 209
PANCTRGE REVIVES 211
' THE DAEK AND GLOOMY FOREST ' , . . . .212
THE DEMONS AND THE HEROES 215
' WE HAD LOST ANOTHER GOOD HERO ' 217
INITIAL A 218
THE LAND OF WIND 219
'WITHOUT WIND WE MUST DIE' 221
INITIAL A 223
PANTAGRUEL SPIES A MONSTER ...... 224
SHOOTING AT THE WHALE ....... 225
PANTAGRUEL TRIES HIS HAND ...... 226
DEATH OF THE MONSTER ........ 227
LANDING THE MONSTER ........ 228
ON WILD ISLAND ......... 229
INITIAL N 231
THE HOSPITABLE FOLK OF PAPIMANY 232
'THE MAYOR RODE UP' . . . . . . . . 233
ENTERING THE FROZEN SEA ....... 234
A SHOWER OF FROZEN WORDS ...... 235
LANDING ON THE ROCKS 236
MASTER GASTER ......... 237
SHARP ISLAND 241
THE SHORES OF LANTERN-LAND 245
THREE GOOD GIANTS
CASTLE GRANDGOUSIER.
THREE GOOD GIANTS.
CHAPTER I.
HOW THE FIRST GIANTS CAME INTO THE WORLD.
AT the beginning of the world the pure blood of Abel, shed by his wicked brother Cain, made the soil very rich. Every fruit seemed to grow that year to a dozen times its usual size. But the fruit that seemed to thrive best, and to taste mo*t toothsome, and to be most eaten, was the medlar. So much of that fruit was eaten at that particular time that the year came to be called the ' Year of Medlars.'
Now, in this 'Year of Medlars,' the good men and women who lived then happened to eat a little too much of this fine fruit. It was all very nice while it was being eaten ; but, somehow, after a little time it was found that terrible swellings, but not all in the same place, came out on those who had shown themselves too fond of the fruit. Some grew big and twisted in their shoulders, and became what were afterwards called Hunch-backs.
Some found themselves with longer legs than others, which, being quite as thin and bony as they were long, made malicious people, who had not eaten of the fruit, shout, ' Crane ! Crane! Long-legged Crane!' whenever one of the poor people showed himself.
Some there were who could boast of a nose as red as it was long and knotty, which made evil-tongued men say they had been more among the grapes than among the medlars. But this was, after all, the fault of the medlars. There was no doubt of that. Others, having a special love for picking out everybody's secrets, found their medlars running into big ears, which grew so long that they soon
THE GIANT CHALBEOTH.
Thung down to their breasts. And those who once had the Big Ear lost, after that, all desire for other people's secrets, because their ears were so large they caught everything bad their neighbors were always saying about them.
Others — and now, listen — grew long in legs, but not longer in legs than they grew stout in body, and it was from these people that the Giants sprang. When those who grew so long in legs and so stout in body began to walk on the earth, the neighbors did their best to please them. You may be sure there was no talk about medlars then.
The first who became known as a giant was called CHALBROTH.
CHALBROTH was the father of all the Giants, and the great-grandfather of Hurtali, who reigned in the time of the Deluge, and who was lucky enough not to be drowned in the deep waters.
Doubtless, the eyes of some of my young readers are twinkling, and they are ready to cry out very positively : ' Oh, no ! There was no Giant in Noah's Ark, you know. How could there be? Only Noah and his family were in the Ark. The Bible says that! *
There was one Wise Man, however, who lived a long time after the first Giant had appeared, and after many
