Chums in Pantomime Land

Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 79

Chums in Pantomime Land

By

ERN. SHAW.

Copyright.

Evidently the Chums had landed in a district where giants 1 ounshed, for they hadn’t gone far when they heard a terrible commotion. Pushing their way through some bushes at the roadside, they P at h which led them to the entrance of a great castle. »» hat a sight met their gaze 1 A handsome boy was leaning out of a small window, and tugging at a rope. At the other end of the rope there struggled, two great grants who were slowly but surely being strangled by the noose, finally they collapsed, and lay quite still, and presently, the boy, who was none other than Jack the Giant-killer, -hurried out to greet the Chums. After congratulating him on defeating such terrible foes, thev all sat down on a rock, and Jack recited to them his adventures, telling ' how he had slain the Giant Cormoran by digging a pit outside bis castle gates into which the monster fell and broke his neck. • f v we F e thrilled when he told how, by destroying the two-headed giant by a clever trick, he had rid the country of a pest who had terrorized the people. Alter bidding Jack "Goodbye and good-luck” in his good work they resumed their’ journey. (To be Continued.)