The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Vol. 1: The Selfish Giant & The Star Child
OSCAR WILDES You kids KG ADAPTED FOR COMICS by P CRAIG BRUSSELL 33 VERY AFTERNOON AS THEY WERE COMING FROM SCHOOL THE CHILDREN USED TO GO AND PLAY IN THE GIANT S GARDEN LETT IT WAS A LARGE LOVELY GARDEN WITH SOFT HERE AND THERE OVER STOOD GREEN GRASS THE ORASS BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS LIKE THERE WERE TWELVE PEACN TREES THAT IN SPRING TIME STARS AND THE BROKE OUT INTO DELICATE BLOSSOMS OF PINK AND PEARL AND IN THE AUTUMN BORE RICH FRUIT THE BIRDS AT ON THE TREES AND SANG SO SWEETLY THAT THE CHILDREN USED TO STOP THEIR GAMES IN ORDER TO LISTEN TO THEM HOW HAPPY WE ARE HERE THEY CRIED TO EACH OTHER NE DAY THE GIANT CAME
HE HAD BEEN TO VISIT HIS FRIEND AFTER THE SEVEN YEARS WERE OVER THE CORNISH OGRE AND HAD HE HAD SAID ALL THAT HE HAD TO SAY STAYED WITH HIM FOR SEVEN YEARS FOR HIS CONVERSATION WAS LIMITED AND HE DETERMINED TO RETURN TO HIS OWN CASTLE ST O WHEN HE ARRIVED HE SAW THE CHILDREN PLAYING IN THE GARDEN WHAT ARE You POWG HERE HE CRIED INA VERY GRUFF VOICE AND THE CHILDREN RAN AWAY MY OWN GARDEN IS MY OWN GARDEN ANYONE CAN HUNDER STAND THAT AND I WILL ALLOWNOBODY A SEV TO PLAY IN IT BUT MYSELF So HE BUILT A HIGH WALL ALL ROUND IT AND PUT UP A NOTICE DOARD S NTRESPASSERS BWILL BE IPROSECUTED t HN D He was a very series over a
THE POOR CHILDREN HAD NOW NOWHERE TO PLAY THEY TRIED TO PLAY ON THE ROAD BUT THE ROAD WAS VERY DUSTY AND FULL OF HARD STONES AND THEY DID NOT LIKE IT How HAPPY EY LSED TO WANDER ROUND THE GH WALL WHEN THEIR LESSONS ERE OVER AND TALK ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL GARDEN INSIDE WE WERE THERE THEY SAID TO EACH OTHER THEN THE SPRING CAME AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THERE WERE LITTLE BLOSSOMS AND LITTLE BIRDS o Y ONLY IN THE GARDEN OF THE SELFISH GIANT IT WAS STILL WINTER THE BIRDS DID NOT CARE TO SING IN IT 45 THERE WERE NO CHILDREN AND THE TREES FORGOT TO BLOSSOM op ONCE A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER PUT BUT WHEN IT SAW THE NOTICE BOARD THAT IT SLIPPED BACK INTO THE ITS HEAD OUT FROM THE GRASS IT WAS SO SORRY FOR THE CHILDREN GROUND AGAIN AND WENT BACK TO SLEEP WILLIS I WILL
