, now that
I see what our house looks like when it is neat and clean."

"What kind fairy could have done all this work while we were away?"
said the littlest giant, who was not little at all, but almost as big
as his enormous brothers.

The three giants fell to discussing the question. They could not guess
how their house could have been made so clean. Their voices were so
very kind, in spite of being so loud and heavy, that Angelita decided
she dare come out from under the chair and let them see who had done
the work for them. She quickly crawled out from her hiding place.

"What lovely fairy is this?" asked the biggest giant, looking at her
kindly. He thought that she really was a fairy.

"This is the loveliest fairy I ever saw in all my life," said the
middle-sized giant.

"How did such a lovely fairy ever happen to find our dirty, disorderly
palace?" asked the littlest giant who was not little at all.

Angelita told the three giants her story. Her beauty and her sweet
ways completely entranced them.

"Please live with us always here in our palace in the jungle and be
our little sister," said the biggest giant, and the middle-sized giant
and the littlest giant, speaking all at once. Their three big deep
voices all together made a noise like thunder.

Angelita lived in the palace with the three giants after that. Every
day when they went out to hunt she would take the broom and make the
palace neat and clean. They called her "little sister" and loved her
with all their big giant hearts.

All was well until a little bird went and told Angelita's step-mother
that she was alive and living in the depths of the jungle with the
three giants. When the step-mother heard about it she was so angry
that she thought she could never be happy as long as Angelita was
living in the world. She consulted a wicked witch as soon as she could
find her shawl.

The wicked witch gave the step-mother some poisoned slippers. "These
will cause the immediate death of any person who puts them on," said
the wicked witch. Then she showed the step-mother just how to reach
the palace where Angelita lived in the depths of the jungle with the
three giants.

Angelita's step-mother followed the directions which the witch had
given her and easily found the giants' palace. Angelita was so happy
living with the giants and keeping house for them that she had
forgotten what fear was like. She was not frightened at all when she
heard some one cl