![]() ![]() He walked into the house, ate a huge meal and went to bed. Stomp, stomp, stomp came the giant's footsteps. She ran fast as she could back to the giant's house, climbed in through an open window and hid beneath the giant's bed. If you do this, I will adopt your eldest sister and raise her as my own." And now I must ask you to do something more. ![]() The whole country fears the giant and his powers. "Molly," said the king, "you have done well. They ran to the castle and asked to speak to the king. Upon the mountaintop they saw, haloed by the sun's bright rays, a castle. They ran until the sun rose over a distant mountain. He took the sack out to a shed, intending to eat them for his breakfast.Īfter he had left, Molly shook her sisters awake. He picked up each of the girls wearing straw and put them in a sack. He leaned over the bed and felt in the dark for the straw ropes. Then she lay down and pretended to sleep.Ī while later the giant rose and sneaked into the girls' room. She removed the daughters' golden chains and placed these on her neck and on her sisters'. ![]() Lifting the ropes from her sisters' necks and from her own, she put them on the giant's daughters' necks. Molly took care to stay awake until she heard the giant's snores. She said nothing as he placed around his daughters' necks large golden chains. She watched the giant as he placed straw ropes around her neck and around her sisters' necks before they went to bed. Molly Whuppie sensed something was strange, but she was clever, so she stayed quiet. "Stay all night, lassies," said the giant. They were staring hard at him, for he was a giant indeed, three times as big as any normal man. He sat down near the fire and ate a meal big enough for 10. The giant's wife called out, "Dear husband, it is only three poor hungry lassies." Her voice was trembling, for she feared her giant husband. "Fee, fie, fo, fum, I smell the blood of some earthly one." And then came a rumbling, grumbling voice. Suddenly they heard heavy feet at the door. She fed them warm milk and thick slices of bread. Glancing outside to make certain her husband was nowhere near, she let them in and set them before the fire. "Let us at least warm ourselves by your fire awhile," Molly begged. If he comes home and sees you, he will eat you up." Can you give us shelter and food?""Oh no," said the woman. When a woman answered, the youngest girl, whose name was Molly Whuppie, said, "Please, we are lost and cold and hungry. They began to run toward it, and soon they saw a house tucked deep in the gloomy woods. On they walked, growing tired and hungry, until at last they glimpsed a light in the distance. As the sun began to set, they shivered at the sound of howling wolves in the distance. One wintry day, three sisters lost their way in the forest. ![]()
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