32 Nature Myths and Stories.

She had intended to tell them about it just be-
fore she left them.

It was afternoon when the giant children found
the pudding.

It was badly burned upon the top by that time.

They had already eaten the bread and butter and
were not hungry.

One little giant said to the others, “Let us make
balls of the pudding and see who can throw the
farthest.”

You know that giants are very strong, and away
went the pudding up into the air.

The little giants made little balls and the older
giants threw pieces as big as a house.

Many pieces went over the mountains and fell
down into the valley beyond.

Indeed this wonderful pudding was scattered for
miles over the whole land, for the giants did not
Stop throwing as long as there was any pudding
left in the pan.

When the sun had shone upon it many days and
dried and hardened it, people called it pudding
stone.

You may find it to-day thrown all over the land,
full of the plums which the good woman washed
with the waters of many lakes.