Peggy's Giant

This is Peggy’s own drawing of what happened in the first Adventure of the Ring. Everyone is very frightened in it. Nurse has just sat down on seeing the Giant, and has dropped Peggy’s brown holland frock behind her. Peggy drew the frock very carefully, spreading it out flat on the floor to get it exactly right. Mother helped her with the Giant’s knee, and with the table. All the rest she did herself. She knows Nurse is too small, but she was too busy getting her surprised enough to remember to make her bigger. Peggy is behind the Giant wondering what to say. The little round things near the Giant’s foot are the broken bits of the cup and saucer, and the black dots are the currants in the cake. The curls in the Giant’s beard were the most fun to do.
BY M. D. HILLYARD
WITH SEVEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR DRAWN BY PEGGY
A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1 1920
TO PEGGY
BY PEGGY

PEGGY’S GIANT
“It rattles!” said Peggy, shaking the last cracker, and looking up at Nurse.
“Well, pull it now, there’s a dear,” said Nurse, “and let me clear up this litter.”
Peggy had just finished her birthday tea up in the nursery alone with Nurse, as Mother was away. Of course it hadn’t been nearly so exciting as her last birthday tea—the only one she could remember—which had been downstairs with lots of other little girls and boys, who had all come to see Peggy. They hadn’t talked to her or to each other much, but had eaten lots of birthday cake, and Peggy had been taken up to bed before the last of them left, because she had had such a long and exciting birthday.