[Illustration: 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.] PEGGY’S GIANT BY M. D. HILLYARD WITH SEVEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR DRAWN BY PEGGY [Illustration] A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.1 1920 TO PEGGY CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. WHAT PEGGY FOUND 5 II. DISAPPEARING 9 III. A DAISY FIELD 15 IV. THE SLEEPY GIANT 19 V. SWEETS AND FAIRIES 22 VI. FE-FO-FUM! 28 VII. PEGGY DRIVES A CAR 35 VIII. THE MAYOR’S OUTING 39 IX. DOWN! 43 X. PIXIE GAMES 49 XI. THE LAST ADVENTURE 54 XII. THE NICEST WISH OF ALL 60 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY PEGGY WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST ADVENTURE OF THE RING _Frontispiece_ THE SECOND ADVENTURE _Facing page_ 20 WHAT THE DRAGON LOOKED LIKE WHEN NURSE SAID “YOU WOULDN’T DARE!” ” 32 PEGGY JUST TELLING THE MAYOR THAT THEY’VE STUCK ” 40 PEGGY AND THE GIANT GOING DOWN ” 46 THE GIANT AND PEGGY AMONG THE PIXIES ” 50 RIDING THROUGH THE VILLAGE IN THE SIXTH ADVENTURE ” 60 PEGGY’S GIANT CHAPTER I WHAT PEGGY FOUND “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.