THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Once upon a time, it was a terrible place for boys and girls to have to live in, because dreadful things had happened to them in the old far-away days, before all the giants had been made an end of. For everybody knew that the real old sort of giants were very fond of children, before they got too big and tough, for breakfast or lunch; and that, even yet, long pointed objects which might be seen about in the fields, which were giants’ teeth, and huge joints of their backbones were still to be met with. Really and truly they must have come out of some huge creature; and the old giants were much the most likely.

Atkinson/Giant Killers