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    The Five Giants
    The Five Giants
    The Five Giants
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    The Five Giants

    By Daniel P. (Daniel Parish) Kidder

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Five Giants - Daniel P. (Daniel Parish) Kidder

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      Title: The Five Giants

      Author: Daniel P. Kidder

      Release Date: July 31, 2010 [EBook #33299]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIVE GIANTS ***

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      THE

      FIVE GIANTS.

      THE

      FIVE GIANTS.

      New~York

      LANE & TIPPETT,

      FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
      200 Mulberry-street.

      THE

      FIVE GIANTS.

      REVISED BY D. P. KIDDER.

      New~York:

      PUBLISHED BY LANE & TIPPETT,

      FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 200 MULBERRY-ST.
      Joseph Longking, Printer.
      1847.

      THE FIVE GIANTS.

      When I was a boy, few things pleased me better than to hear a tale about a giant. Silly and untrue as were the stories that I heard, they vastly delighted me; but were you now to ask what information they gave me, or what good I gathered from them, sadly should I be at fault for a reply.

      But if a tale about giants,

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