CHAPTER 3

[000]CHAPTER 3[002]

The hole in the wall.[019]

The spring and the summer never come to the Giant’s garden.[027]

The Autumn brings golden apples to most people’s gardens, but to the Giant’s garden she brings nothing.[040]

‘I don’t give to selfish people,’ she says.[045]

So it is always winter there. [050]And the North Wind, the Hail, the Frost and the Snow run about in it.[061]

One morning, when the Giant opens his eyes in bed, he hears some music.[074]

‘That’s beautiful!’ he cries.[078]

‘But what is it?’[080]

A little bird is singing near his window that’s all.[088]

But after the long winter in his garden. the Giant can’t remember the noise very well.[099]

Then the Hail stops hitting the roof, and the North Wind is quiet.[110] Suddenly a wonderful perfume comes to the Giant get through the open window.[120]

The spring’s here at last, I think!’ he cries.[126]

Then he gets up and looks out.[132]

What a wonderful thing! The children are coming into the garden through a little hole in the wall, and they are sitting in the trees.[148]

And the trees are happy because the children are back.[155]

They begin to blossom and move their arms about.[161]

The birds are singing happily in the sky.[168]The flowers are coming out of the ground and laughing.[175]

But far across the garden — in one corner — it isn’t spring.[183]

A young boy is standing there. There is frost and snow on his tree, and he cannot get up into it. he is crying.