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PANTAGRUEL'S PORRINGER 115

PANTAGRUEL CARRIES HIS CRADLE 117

INITIAL S 118

THE GREAT CROSS-BOW OF CHANTELLE . . . .118

THE GREAT RAISED STONE 119

PANTAGRUEL VISITS HIS ANCESTORS' TOMB . . . .120

PANTAGRUEL SETTLES AT ORLEANS 121

PANTAGRUEL IN THE LIBRARY 125

INITIAL O 127

PANTAGRUEL MEETS PANURGE 129

INITIAL W 131

AT THE GATES OF SORBONNE 133

THAUMASTES VISITS PANTAGRUEL 134

"THE GREAT COLLEGE WAS PACKED" 135

PANURGE REPLIES 139

INITIAL T 141

PANURGE GETS MONEY 142

PANURGE AND THE DIRT-CARTS 143

PANURGE'S FUN 145

INITIAL A 146

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PANTAGRUEL MARCHES TO ROTTEN 147

INITIAL S . 150

THE VOYAGE BEGINS 151

PANURGE DISCOMFITS THE HORSEMEN . . . . . . 153

INITIAL W 156

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

PA B

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 great ones had been noticed, and who had seen some with his own eyes. This Wise Man had thought, in a quiet way, a great deal about the Big People, and, through much study, had found out why it was they were not all drowned.

This Wise Man makes himself very clear on this point. He says that Hurtali — the great-grandson of Chalbroth, the first Giant—escaped the Deluge, not by getting into the Ark, —it was altogether too small for that, — but by getting outside of it. In other words, he used it as a man strides a horse, riding on top of it, with one huge leg hanging over the right side and the other over the left. If Hurtali was very heavy, the Blessed Ark was very stout. He got so used to his seat after a while, that, being on the outside, and able to see everything around him, he made his long legs do for the Ark just what the rudder of a ship does for her. He must have saved it from many and many a rough shock against jutting mountains and sharp rocks as the waters

were rising, and as, after covering the earth, they began to sink lower and lower ; but it may be relied on — since the Wise Man says so — that, during the forty days and nights, Giant Hurtali was on the best

THE GIANT HURTALI ON THE AKK.

of terms with Noah and all his family. This might look strange ; but it appears that there was on the top of the Ark a chimney, and it was through this chimney that Hurtali could always, for the asking, have his share of his favorite pottage handed up to him.

It would really be of no use to tell the names of all the Giants who came between Hurtali and our merry old King Grandgousier. Some of them you already know. Long after Hurtali came Goliath, the Giant, whom young David slew with his sling and stone; Briareus, the Greek Giant of a hundred hands; King Porus, the Indian Giant, who fought with Alexander, and was defeated by him; and the famous Giant Bruyer, slain by Ogier the Dane, Peer of France. There are so many of them that I would soon grow tired of giving, and you of hearing, even their names. All that we care about knowing is that, in a straight line from Hurtali, the Giant who rode on the Blessed Ark, the fifty-fourth was GRANDGOUSIER, who was the father of GARGANTUA, who, in his turn, was the father of PANTAGRUEL.