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THE GIANT 



IN days of old an enormous man lived with 

 other members of the Inuit tribe in a village be- 

 side a large inlet. He was so tall that he could 

 straddle the inlet, and he used to stand that way 

 every morning and wait for the whales to pass 

 beneath him. As soon as one came along he used 

 to scoop it up just as easily as other men scoop 

 up a minnow. And he ate the whole whale just 

 as other men eat a small fish. 



One day all the natives manned their boats to 

 catch a whale that was spouting off the shore; 

 but he sat idly by his hut. When the men had 

 harpooned the whale and were having a hard time 

 to hold it and keep their boats from capsizing, he 

 rose and strolled down to the shore and scooped 

 the whale and the boats from the water and 

 placed them on the beach. 



Another time when he was tired of walking 

 about, he lay down on a high hill to take a nap. 



* You would better be careful," said the peo- 

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