The Selfish Giant(1)
Every afternoon, as they were coming from school,
the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden. It was a large lovely garden,
with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl,
and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly
that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them.
"How happy we are here!" They cried to each other. ? One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say,
for their conversation was limited,
and he determined to return to his own castle.
When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden.?
"What are you doing here?" he cried in a very gruff voice, and the children all ran away. "My own garden is my own garden," said the Giant;
"any one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in the garden but myself." So he built a high wall all round the garden,
and put up a notice-board.? TRESPASSERS?WILL BE PROSECUTED? He was a very selfish Giant.? The poor children had now nowhere to play.
They tried to play on the road, but the road was very dusty and full of hard stones, and they did not like it at all. When their lessons were over,
they used to wander round the high wall and talk about the beautiful garden inside. "How happy we were there," they said to each other.? ? |
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