By Aunt Mary
Now if you will all keep still, I’ll tell you a story. Sh-sh! Jimmie, will you sit down? How would you like to hear about the Princess and the robber?
One bright warm morning, the Princess and her big, faithful dog went out for a walk. They didn’t know just where they were going, but that they would go into the big, cool woods, which belonged to her father, the King, and no one was allowed there but the Royal family and their guests.
As the Princess was going down the path into the big, cool woods, her big dog, Rover, trotted behind her, carrying the lunch basket. He knew he mustn’t lose the basket for it had a great big bone in it for him and he was busy thinking where he was going to bury that nice big bone. In fact, he was so busy thinking that he didn’t hear or see the little red, fluffy squirrel, who ran right across the path in front of the Princess.
Dog Rover started to chase the squirrel and was so excited that he dropped the lunch basket and out rolled a big yellow orange. So the Princess and Dog Rover ran after it, but it kept rolling on and on, right into the big dark forest, but the Princess and Dog Rover kept trying to catch it, but the big yellow orange kept rolling on and on until all of a sudden it stopped in front of a great high tree. The tree was so tall that you couldn’t see the top of it and was big around as a house. As the Princess reached down to pick up the orange, a great big door opened in the trees and out came a terrible giant. The Princess was so scared that she couldn’t scream or run, but Dog Rover wasn’t scared for he stiffened his legs and his hair stood straight up on his back, he showed his big, white teeth and growled way down deep, for he didnt’ like the looks of the giant. But the bad giant only laughed and told Dog Rover to stop growling or he would kick him. Dog Rover wasn’t afraid, so he growled more and more, which made the giant very angry, and just as he started to kick Dog Rover who should jump out of the orange but Jack the Giant Killer, and the giant was so scared when he saw him that he started to run and didn’t stop until he stubbed his toe on a hill and fell into the ocean and was drowned. So the Princess and her big dog Rover ran all the way back to the castle to tell the King and Queen all about it.
