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Title: The Five Giants

Author: Daniel P. Kidder

Release Date: July 31, 2010 [EBook #33299]

Language: English

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THE

FIVE GIANTS.

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New-York:
LANE & TIPPETT,
FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
200 Mulberry-street.

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THE

FIVE GIANTS.

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REVISED BY D. P. KIDDER.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY LANE & TIPPETT,

FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 200 MULBERRY-ST.

Joseph Longking, Printer.
1847.

THE FIVE GIANTS.

When I was a boy, few things pleased me better than to hear a tale about
a giant. Silly and untrue as were the stories that I heard, they vastly
delighted me; but were you now to ask what information they gave me, or
what good I gathered from them, sadly should I be at fault for a reply.

But if a tale about giants, that was not true, and that added nothing
to my knowledge, amused me, why should not a story about giants, which
is true, and which gives good information, be equally entertaining to
you? I see no reason why it should not be so, and therefore it is my
determination to tell you the tale of the Five Giants.

Three of the five giants are old, so very old that you would hardly
believe me were I to tell you their ages; and the other two are much
older than many people imagine; but, notwithstanding the great age of
these giants, their strength is not in the least impaired. They can
travel as fast and do quite as much work as they ever did in their
youthful days.

By and by you shall know the real names of these five giants; but it
will answer my purpose better, and give you, perhaps, quite as much
entertainment, if, at first, I name them according to my fancy. The
three old