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you tell me anything about where she is and how I can find her?"

The Giant of the Great Wind put on his thinking cap. He thought hard.
"Your mother is in the power of a land giant who has imprisoned her,"
he said. "I happen to know all about the affair. I passed that way
only yesterday. I'll gladly go with you and help you get her home.
We'll start at once."

The Giant of the Great Wind took the Spring Princess back to earth on
his swift horses. Then he stormed the castle of the land giant who had
imprisoned the Giantess of the Great River. The Spring Princess dug
quietly beneath the castle walls to the dungeon where her mother was
confined. You may be sure that her mother was overjoyed to see her.

When the Spring Princess had led her mother safely outside the castle
walls she thanked the Giant of the Great Wind for all he had done to
help her. Then the Giantess of the Great River and the Spring Princess
hastened back to the wonderful palace of mother-of-pearl set with gold
and silver and precious stones, where the Great River runs into the
Sea. As soon as she had safely reached there once more the Spring
Princess suddenly remembered that she had stayed away from her home in
the palace of the Sun Giant longer than the three months she was
supposed to stay according to the agreement. She at once said good-bye
to her mother and hastened to the home of the Sun Giant, her husband,
and to her baby son.

Now the Sun Giant had been very much worried at first when the three
months had passed and the Spring Princess had not come back to him and
her little son. Then he became angry. He became so angry that he
married another princess. The new wife discharged the nurses who were
taking care of the tiny son of the Spring Princess and put him in the
kitchen just as if he had been a little black slave baby.

When the Spring Princess arrived at the palace of the Sun Giant the
very first person she saw was her own little son, so dirty and
neglected that she hardly recognized him. Then she found out all that
had happened in her absence.

The Spring Princess quickly seized her child and clasped him tight in
her arms. Then she fled to the depths of the sea, and wept, and wept,
and wept. The waters of the sea rose so high that they reached even to
the palace of the Sun Giant. They covered the palace, and the Sun
Giant, his new wife, and all the court entirely disappeared from view.
For forty days the face of the Sun Giant was n