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    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