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Kidder + +Release Date: July 31, 2010 [EBook #33299] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIVE GIANTS *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<hr /> + +<h1>THE<br /> +FIVE GIANTS.</h1> + +<hr class="hr3" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="400" height="660" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p class="tp"><span class="pub">THE</span><br /> +<br /><br /><br /> +<span class="title">FIVE GIANTS.</span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/cover2.jpg" width="200" height="136" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="tp"><span class="oldeng">New<i>~</i>York</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="pub">LANE & TIPPETT,</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="pub2">FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE +METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="address">200 Mulberry-street.</span></p> + +<hr /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i004.jpg" width="400" height="334" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<p class="tp"><span class="pub">THE</span><br /> +<br /><br /><br /> +<span class="title">FIVE GIANTS.</span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i005.jpg" width="400" height="225" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="tp"><span class="pub">REVISED BY D. P. KIDDER.</span><br /> +<br /><br /><br /> +<span class="oldeng">New~York:</span> +<br /><br /><br /> +<span class="pub">PUBLISHED BY LANE & TIPPETT,</span><br /> +<br /> +<span class="pub2">FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST +EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 200 MULBERRY-ST.</span></p> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<p class="tp"><span class="address">Joseph Longking, Printer.</span><br /> +<span class="pub2">1847.</span></p> + + + + +<hr /> + +<h2><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> +THE FIVE GIANTS.</h2> + +<hr class="hr3" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">When</span> 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.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p><p>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.</p> + +<p>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 +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span>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.</p> + +<p>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 giants, Flare, Roar, and Blow, are known<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> in every part of the +world; but the two younger, Bounce and Rush, have not, as yet, traveled +quite as far as their brothers. For the most part, all five of them are +useful characters; but if once they are in a passion, and this is too +often the case, the sooner you are out of their way the better.</p> + +<p>Giant Flare is somewhat yellow in complexion, with red hair, and has +many good and companionable qualities; indeed, in the winter, when<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +people like to gather round the friendly hearth, he is one of the most +agreeable creatures in the world. No wonder, then, that he should be so +much sought after. He is invited by the prince and the peasant, and +accepts the invitation of both freely, so that on the same day he is to +be seen in the poorest cot and the proudest palace.</p> + +<p>But besides his companionable qualities, Giant Flare is a capital cook, +so much so, that he has been employed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> by all the crowned heads in all +the quarters of the world. He is very useful in mining operations, and +in smelting ore; and then, as a manufacturer, he is quite at home, being +equally skilled in making a copper saucepan, a brass warming-pan, a +silver snuff-box, and a golden sovereign.</p> + +<p>You will begin to think well of Giant Flare; but truth is truth, and, as +I told you, all the five giants are sad fellows when in a passion. Giant +Flare has many a time burst<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> out into a perfect frenzy, and done +mischief that could never be repaired. If he is not used well, he thinks +nothing of burning a person's house down. He has been the means of +destroying many fine forests, and, on one occasion, when in London, to +his disgrace be it spoken, with the assistance of one of his brothers, +Giant Blow, he set almost a hundred churches and as many as thirteen +thousand houses all in a blaze.</p> + +<p>When Bonaparte set out to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> conquer Russia, Giant Flare resisted him, and +would not let him go further than Moscow; and when the Spanish Armada +invaded England, he boldly attacked the Spanish ships, and was one of +the principal means of scattering and putting them to flight. But now +let me tell you of Giant Roar.</p> + +<p>This giant is about the same age as his brother of whom I have said so +much, and, like him, has done both kind and ill-natured deeds in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> his +time. He is fond of constructing baths, and fishing ponds, and canals, +and of rendering assistance in cultivating gardens. He is largely +connected with ships and sailors. Many think he has more power by sea +than by land; but some of his mad pranks will surprise you.</p> + +<p>A long time after the Thames Tunnel was begun, under the river at +London, and when thousands and tens of thousands of pounds had been +spent, in an angry mood<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> he set his foot against the bottom of the +river, and crushed the in tunnel. Since then he has behaved better, and +allowed them to finish the work; but, for a time, this prank of his +occasioned great confusion.</p> + +<p>I have seen him myself, in his tantrums, play terrible tricks; I once +met him at the Falls of Niagara, where he roared like a Bedlamite, +foamed at the mouth worse than a mad dog, and at last flung himself +headlong from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> so high a precipice that he was dashed into a thousand +pieces. Whether the Americans and Canadians had used him ill, or not, I +will not say, but certain it was, that his rage appeared unbounded.</p> + +<p>You will think that what I have already said of Giant Roar is bad +enough; but on one occasion he was even yet more ungovernable, for +rushing abroad in his fury, he destroyed more lives than ever had been +destroyed at one time since the world had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> been made. Many of his +victims struggled hard with him to the utmost; but he came upon them by +surprise, and they were neither swift enough to escape, nor strong +enough to resist him.</p> + +<p>Giant Blow is kind, whimsical, mischievous, and dangerous, by fits. One +day, as I went by the common, he was good-naturedly helping a group of +school boys to fly their kites. I hardly think they could have managed +without his assistance; but,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> in ten minutes after, he tore two of their +kites all to shivers. The same day he snatched widow Woodward's shawl +from her back, and went off with it, broke half a dozen clothes lines, +tossed about the clothes, and then, all at once, violently pushed down a +large stack of chimneys. You see by these actions how little he is to be +relied on.</p> + +<p>Giant Blow is a great traveler, for he sailed round the world with +Captain Cook, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> helped Columbus to discover America. Indeed Columbus +could not have gone without him. Were he and Giant Roar to withdraw the +assistance they give to seamen, it would at once put an end to all +merchandise, and not a single ship would be able to sail upon the seas.</p> + +<p>But though Giant Blow is one of the best friends in the world to +sailors, he often treats them very harshly, knocking their vessels to +pieces, and flinging them into the raging<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> deep. Hundreds of gallant +ships, and thousands of hardy tars, has he destroyed in his time.</p> + +<p>Giant Blow grinds a great deal of corn, and has a method of his own for +cooling the earth in hot weather. Common report says that, on some +occasions, he has removed the plague; and no physician on the earth has +effected such extraordinary cures as he has done. If every one that he +has kept in health were to give him a fee,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> of all doctors in the world +he would be the richest.</p> + +<p>Giant Blow is well known in the West Indies, where he has, at different +times, made great confusion. When once his loud voice is heard, a +general terror and consternation are spread around; for it is well known +that, in his passions, he spares neither friend nor foe. With his great +strength he lays about him in all directions, stripping the trees of +their foliage, and furiously tearing them up by the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> roots, flinging the +roofs of the houses in the air, and battering down the walls on the +heads of those who dwell in them. On he goes, till loud cries of +distress are heard, and heaps of rubbish and rafters, and the dead +bodies of men, women, and children, lie mingled together in confusion on +the ground.</p> + +<p>You have not, from what I have told you, I dare say, formed the highest +opinion of Flare, Roar, and Blow; and I fear that the characters of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +Giants Bounce and Rush will be very far from perfect in your estimation. +You shall have, however, the best account of them that I can give you, +and then you will be able to judge more correctly.</p> + +<p>Giant Bounce, of all the family of the giants, is certainly the most +peppery in his temper. His brothers usually give some notice of their +outbreaks, and rise in their position by degrees; not so Giant Bounce: +at one moment he is quiet as a lamb,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> and at the next much fiercer than +a lion.</p> + +<p>In complexion, he is much darker than the others; indeed he has an ugly, +grim, and very forbidding appearance, which well suits his disposition. +He is the friend of duelists and highwaymen, and this of itself would be +bad enough, if I had nothing else to bring against him. He has done some +good, certainly, in his day; but take him for all in all, it might have +been well if his friend<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> the monk, who first introduced him into +society, had been otherwise employed.</p> + +<p>You would hardly think, from the kind way in which he amuses children, +by making them squibs and crackers, and other fireworks, that he was +half so mischievous as he is; but as I have told you the truth about his +brothers, so will I tell you the truth about him. I cannot say that he +does not make himself useful at times, for, in deep mines, he often does +more work, in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> one hour, than the miners could do without him in a whole +day; yet still he is a dark, designing, cruel character.</p> + +<p>It is true that, some years ago, he went against a terrible pirate and +robber, who lived on the coast of Barbary, destroying his ships, +knocking his fortifications about his ears, compelling him to give up +all the Christian slaves he had in his dungeons, and making him promise +to behave better in future. It is true also that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> he helped Nelson, +Napoleon, Wellington, and Washington, to win their victories; but it was +not because he had any special love for either of them that he did these +things. No! whatever other people say of him, I say that he is a hasty, +cruel, treacherous, blood-thirsty monster. It was he who first persuaded +people to make guns, pistols, and cannon mortars, bombshells, and +congreve rockets, so that widows and orphans have been multiplied by +him, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> millions of men, by his means, have been destroyed.</p> + +<p>I have now come to the last of the giants, and his character shall be +summed up in few words. If you remember, I told you that, in winter +nights, Giant Flare was a very agreeable companion, and the same thing +may be said of Giant Rush. When the tea-urn simmers, and friends gather +round the winter tea-table, Giants Flare and Rush ought always to be +there. They are good company<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> even when you have them one at a time; but +still better when they are together.</p> + +<p>Giant Rush is thought to be younger than his brother Bounce; but of this +I have some doubt. Of the two, however, he is by far the most +industrious. He draws up water out of mines; he blows the bellows of the +blast-furnaces; saws timber; grinds and polishes metals, makes carriages +run without horses, and forces ships through the waters of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> great +deep against both wind and tide. Besides these things, he has latterly +begun to print newspapers and books, and in this department he will make +himself more known than ever. These are his good deeds; but his bad ones +are a sad reproach to him.</p> + +<p>Would you believe it that, some time back, he undertook to do more +destruction, and to destroy more lives in one hour, than Giant Bounce +could in a day? Few people thought better than I did of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> Giant Rush +before this; and, to speak the truth, I hardly thought the report was +true. But when I saw him, with my own eyes, fire sixty or eighty bullets +out of an iron tube, in less time than Giant Bounce could fire with the +same instrument, I thought to myself, "O! if he can do this, he can do +anything."</p> + +<p>The giant then went into a large field, and, pointing a cannon into a +high sand-bank, fired off a complete stream of cannon balls, enough, I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span> +should think, to bring down a house, if not a church, to the very +ground. In short, I was quite frightened at his invention; and all that +I hope now is, that no one will give him the least encouragement in his +horrid undertaking.</p> + +<p>Having now related what may appear to you rather a wonderful story, I +must proceed to tell you the real names of the five giants, though it is +by no means unlikely that you have already guessed them. The five +giants, Flare, Roar,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> Blow, Bounce, and Rush, are, then, neither more +nor less than the five gigantic powers, Fire, Water, Wind, Gunpowder, +and Steam; and, though I may have related their adventures and +achievements somewhat fancifully, if you will examine them you will find +that they are strictly true. The influence of these giant powers in the +world has been very great; and as your attention is now drawn to the +subject, you will, perhaps, be disposed to think upon it more<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> than you +have hitherto done, connected so closely as it is with the comfort, the +luxury, the knowledge, and indeed, also, with the happiness and misery +of mankind. Had I been disposed, I might have made my relation much more +wonderful; but I trust you have received from it, as it is, some +amusement, and that it has not been altogether without instruction. It +may be long before you again hear a true story of five giants; you will +therefore do well to try<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> to turn this one to advantage, and to inquire +what it is, in each case, that gives force to the power. For you ought +to understand that, in and with all the powers of nature, although man +is allowed to make much use of them, and often to set them in operation; +yet there is a greater Hand than his, though all unseen, which alone can +control them. Whenever, then, we see either the water or the fire, or +hear the wind, let us remember that these are so many elements<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> which +God has intrusted to the use of man, and that for an abuse of their +capacities we shall be held accountable.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i038.jpg" width="400" height="225" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + + +<hr /> + +<div class="tp"> +<span class="pub">METH. EPIS. S. S. UNION.</span> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<span class="pub"><b>ELEGANT BOOKS.</b></span> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<span class="pub">AUNT CLARA'S +STORIES.</span><br /> + +<span class="pub"><small>18mo. Price 16 cents.</small></span> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<span class="pub">ANNIE WALTON.</span><br /> + +<span class="pub"><small>18mo. 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Kidder + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Five Giants + +Author: Daniel P. Kidder + +Release Date: July 31, 2010 [EBook #33299] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIVE GIANTS *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + THE + + FIVE GIANTS. + + [Illustration] + + New-York: + LANE & TIPPETT, + FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE + METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, + 200 Mulberry-street. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + THE + + FIVE GIANTS. + + [Illustration] + + 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 giants, Flare, Roar, and Blow, are known in every part of the +world; but the two younger, Bounce and Rush, have not, as yet, traveled +quite as far as their brothers. For the most part, all five of them are +useful characters; but if once they are in a passion, and this is too +often the case, the sooner you are out of their way the better. + +Giant Flare is somewhat yellow in complexion, with red hair, and has +many good and companionable qualities; indeed, in the winter, when +people like to gather round the friendly hearth, he is one of the most +agreeable creatures in the world. No wonder, then, that he should be so +much sought after. He is invited by the prince and the peasant, and +accepts the invitation of both freely, so that on the same day he is to +be seen in the poorest cot and the proudest palace. + +But besides his companionable qualities, Giant Flare is a capital cook, +so much so, that he has been employed by all the crowned heads in all +the quarters of the world. He is very useful in mining operations, and +in smelting ore; and then, as a manufacturer, he is quite at home, being +equally skilled in making a copper saucepan, a brass warming-pan, a +silver snuff-box, and a golden sovereign. + +You will begin to think well of Giant Flare; but truth is truth, and, as +I told you, all the five giants are sad fellows when in a passion. Giant +Flare has many a time burst out into a perfect frenzy, and done +mischief that could never be repaired. If he is not used well, he thinks +nothing of burning a person's house down. He has been the means of +destroying many fine forests, and, on one occasion, when in London, to +his disgrace be it spoken, with the assistance of one of his brothers, +Giant Blow, he set almost a hundred churches and as many as thirteen +thousand houses all in a blaze. + +When Bonaparte set out to conquer Russia, Giant Flare resisted him, and +would not let him go further than Moscow; and when the Spanish Armada +invaded England, he boldly attacked the Spanish ships, and was one of +the principal means of scattering and putting them to flight. But now +let me tell you of Giant Roar. + +This giant is about the same age as his brother of whom I have said so +much, and, like him, has done both kind and ill-natured deeds in his +time. He is fond of constructing baths, and fishing ponds, and canals, +and of rendering assistance in cultivating gardens. He is largely +connected with ships and sailors. Many think he has more power by sea +than by land; but some of his mad pranks will surprise you. + +A long time after the Thames Tunnel was begun, under the river at +London, and when thousands and tens of thousands of pounds had been +spent, in an angry mood he set his foot against the bottom of the +river, and crushed the in tunnel. Since then he has behaved better, and +allowed them to finish the work; but, for a time, this prank of his +occasioned great confusion. + +I have seen him myself, in his tantrums, play terrible tricks; I once +met him at the Falls of Niagara, where he roared like a Bedlamite, +foamed at the mouth worse than a mad dog, and at last flung himself +headlong from so high a precipice that he was dashed into a thousand +pieces. Whether the Americans and Canadians had used him ill, or not, I +will not say, but certain it was, that his rage appeared unbounded. + +You will think that what I have already said of Giant Roar is bad +enough; but on one occasion he was even yet more ungovernable, for +rushing abroad in his fury, he destroyed more lives than ever had been +destroyed at one time since the world had been made. Many of his +victims struggled hard with him to the utmost; but he came upon them by +surprise, and they were neither swift enough to escape, nor strong +enough to resist him. + +Giant Blow is kind, whimsical, mischievous, and dangerous, by fits. One +day, as I went by the common, he was good-naturedly helping a group of +school boys to fly their kites. I hardly think they could have managed +without his assistance; but, in ten minutes after, he tore two of their +kites all to shivers. The same day he snatched widow Woodward's shawl +from her back, and went off with it, broke half a dozen clothes lines, +tossed about the clothes, and then, all at once, violently pushed down a +large stack of chimneys. You see by these actions how little he is to be +relied on. + +Giant Blow is a great traveler, for he sailed round the world with +Captain Cook, and helped Columbus to discover America. Indeed Columbus +could not have gone without him. Were he and Giant Roar to withdraw the +assistance they give to seamen, it would at once put an end to all +merchandise, and not a single ship would be able to sail upon the seas. + +But though Giant Blow is one of the best friends in the world to +sailors, he often treats them very harshly, knocking their vessels to +pieces, and flinging them into the raging deep. Hundreds of gallant +ships, and thousands of hardy tars, has he destroyed in his time. + +Giant Blow grinds a great deal of corn, and has a method of his own for +cooling the earth in hot weather. Common report says that, on some +occasions, he has removed the plague; and no physician on the earth has +effected such extraordinary cures as he has done. If every one that he +has kept in health were to give him a fee, of all doctors in the world +he would be the richest. + +Giant Blow is well known in the West Indies, where he has, at different +times, made great confusion. When once his loud voice is heard, a +general terror and consternation are spread around; for it is well known +that, in his passions, he spares neither friend nor foe. With his great +strength he lays about him in all directions, stripping the trees of +their foliage, and furiously tearing them up by the roots, flinging the +roofs of the houses in the air, and battering down the walls on the +heads of those who dwell in them. On he goes, till loud cries of +distress are heard, and heaps of rubbish and rafters, and the dead +bodies of men, women, and children, lie mingled together in confusion on +the ground. + +You have not, from what I have told you, I dare say, formed the highest +opinion of Flare, Roar, and Blow; and I fear that the characters of +Giants Bounce and Rush will be very far from perfect in your estimation. +You shall have, however, the best account of them that I can give you, +and then you will be able to judge more correctly. + +Giant Bounce, of all the family of the giants, is certainly the most +peppery in his temper. His brothers usually give some notice of their +outbreaks, and rise in their position by degrees; not so Giant Bounce: +at one moment he is quiet as a lamb, and at the next much fiercer than +a lion. + +In complexion, he is much darker than the others; indeed he has an ugly, +grim, and very forbidding appearance, which well suits his disposition. +He is the friend of duelists and highwaymen, and this of itself would be +bad enough, if I had nothing else to bring against him. He has done some +good, certainly, in his day; but take him for all in all, it might have +been well if his friend the monk, who first introduced him into +society, had been otherwise employed. + +You would hardly think, from the kind way in which he amuses children, +by making them squibs and crackers, and other fireworks, that he was +half so mischievous as he is; but as I have told you the truth about his +brothers, so will I tell you the truth about him. I cannot say that he +does not make himself useful at times, for, in deep mines, he often does +more work, in one hour, than the miners could do without him in a whole +day; yet still he is a dark, designing, cruel character. + +It is true that, some years ago, he went against a terrible pirate and +robber, who lived on the coast of Barbary, destroying his ships, +knocking his fortifications about his ears, compelling him to give up +all the Christian slaves he had in his dungeons, and making him promise +to behave better in future. It is true also that he helped Nelson, +Napoleon, Wellington, and Washington, to win their victories; but it was +not because he had any special love for either of them that he did these +things. No! whatever other people say of him, I say that he is a hasty, +cruel, treacherous, blood-thirsty monster. It was he who first persuaded +people to make guns, pistols, and cannon mortars, bombshells, and +congreve rockets, so that widows and orphans have been multiplied by +him, and millions of men, by his means, have been destroyed. + +I have now come to the last of the giants, and his character shall be +summed up in few words. If you remember, I told you that, in winter +nights, Giant Flare was a very agreeable companion, and the same thing +may be said of Giant Rush. When the tea-urn simmers, and friends gather +round the winter tea-table, Giants Flare and Rush ought always to be +there. They are good company even when you have them one at a time; but +still better when they are together. + +Giant Rush is thought to be younger than his brother Bounce; but of +this I have some doubt. Of the two, however, he is by far the most +industrious. He draws up water out of mines; he blows the bellows of the +blast-furnaces; saws timber; grinds and polishes metals, makes carriages +run without horses, and forces ships through the waters of the great +deep against both wind and tide. Besides these things, he has latterly +begun to print newspapers and books, and in this department he will make +himself more known than ever. These are his good deeds; but his bad ones +are a sad reproach to him. + +Would you believe it that, some time back, he undertook to do more +destruction, and to destroy more lives in one hour, than Giant Bounce +could in a day? Few people thought better than I did of Giant Rush +before this; and, to speak the truth, I hardly thought the report was +true. But when I saw him, with my own eyes, fire sixty or eighty bullets +out of an iron tube, in less time than Giant Bounce could fire with the +same instrument, I thought to myself, "O! if he can do this, he can do +anything." + +The giant then went into a large field, and, pointing a cannon into a +high sand-bank, fired off a complete stream of cannon balls, enough, I +should think, to bring down a house, if not a church, to the very +ground. In short, I was quite frightened at his invention; and all that +I hope now is, that no one will give him the least encouragement in his +horrid undertaking. + +Having now related what may appear to you rather a wonderful story, I +must proceed to tell you the real names of the five giants, though it is +by no means unlikely that you have already guessed them. The five +giants, Flare, Roar, Blow, Bounce, and Rush, are, then, neither more +nor less than the five gigantic powers, Fire, Water, Wind, Gunpowder, +and Steam; and, though I may have related their adventures and +achievements somewhat fancifully, if you will examine them you will find +that they are strictly true. The influence of these giant powers in the +world has been very great; and as your attention is now drawn to the +subject, you will, perhaps, be disposed to think upon it more than you +have hitherto done, connected so closely as it is with the comfort, the +luxury, the knowledge, and indeed, also, with the happiness and misery +of mankind. Had I been disposed, I might have made my relation much more +wonderful; but I trust you have received from it, as it is, some +amusement, and that it has not been altogether without instruction. It +may be long before you again hear a true story of five giants; you will +therefore do well to try to turn this one to advantage, and to inquire +what it is, in each case, that gives force to the power. For you ought +to understand that, in and with all the powers of nature, although man +is allowed to make much use of them, and often to set them in operation; +yet there is a greater Hand than his, though all unseen, which alone can +control them. Whenever, then, we see either the water or the fire, or +hear the wind, let us remember that these are so many elements which +God has intrusted to the use of man, and that for an abuse of their +capacities we shall be held accountable. + +[Illustration] + + + + + METH. EPIS. S. S. UNION. + ELEGANT BOOKS. + + AUNT CLARA'S + STORIES. + 18mo. Price 16 cents. + + ANNIE WALTON. + 18mo. 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