FAIRIES AND GIANTS OF CORNWALL. 151 
gently with two fingers, and at last discovered living creatures in 
it. A German ballad, called Reisen-Spielzeug, mentions a pretty 
little giantess who picks up a peasant with his plough and yoke of 
oxen, and takes them home to her father, as a plaything; but he 
rebukes her and tells her that the race of the creature she has 
brought home, will ultimately drive the giant race away. 
Bolster, however, and giants of that size who would reach 
from Truro to Falmouth, are too large to romance about ; we cannot 
realize them. One of Brobdingnagian size we can fancy; but 
much beyond that we get confused. . 
Guo 
