ADVENTURES OF THE CHUMS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1935, Page 7 (Supplement)

ADVENTURES OF THE CHUMS

: Last week we saw how the little tailor confounded the giant by sitting on the' tree root The giant was so surprised that, although he had intended to ea XlSlor for he was afre.d to do so. But he mad. his ramd to oaleh , iw nip nt The little tailor, however, had also thought ot tnat, ana wMele g£.t £t he placed a.big’ boulder i» the bed, covered it over, and went and slept under a tree.

.In; the middle of the night the giant arose and gave the boulder a bang Wi *TXt? U foiished him,”’ Be thought. “In the morning, after my early stroll, I’ll have him for breakfast.” .. .. , ~ You can tell how surprised he was next morning to meet the little tailor in the wood ! . “Good morning, sir,” said the tailor politely. . . “Bu-but, didn’t you feel anything hit you during the night. stuttered the “The flies bothered me a bit,” said the little tailor. . “The flies!” cried the giant. With that he ran off in a great panic.

.Laughing at the giant’s dismay, the little tailor continued on his way. At last he reached a distant country, and, as he was hot and tired, he lay beneath a tree and fell fast asleep. While he rested two Courtiers from the castle passe . “Gracioussaid one. “Look at that. ‘Seven at a blow ! “My!” {said the other. “He might be just the man to get the King out of his troubles. Let us wake him and take him to the castle.”

The two Courtiers took the little tailor to the castle. .' , lutlp The Eg was very interested, but he could not understand how such a little fellow eSu Ml S at a Mow. When the tailor toH of Ms adventure w.th the giant the King was greatly astonished. % y»r Maisty?lid fee little tailor. “He ran like wildfire.'’ • '■Ym’must come and tell me more of this," said the Kins. I might, indeed, make you my Brune Minister.”

The little tailor got on wonderfully well with the King. In fact, the Courtiers considered that His Majesty paid him far too much attention. You see the Kmg really was looking for a Prime Minister, and, of course, all the Courtiers wanted to get the position." ' , ~ , ~ . , -‘We shall have to do something,” said two, as they gazed through the window. So they weht and talked it over with the Secretary for War, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The King was not looking happy. He feared that he was going to lose the little tailor, because the Ministers had insisted that he was a fraud “If he isn’t,” they said, “let him get rid of the two giants who have troubled U So K Sf d Ktaghad and‘the little tailor was called into the Council two giants, your Majesty,” he said; “I thought you were going to ask me to do something difficult.” „ “They ate my late Prime Minister, anyway, replied the Kmg.