[Illustration: THEY WERE ALL OVER THE FIELD.]

Next spring all over Patroclus's potato-field grew running vines,
and in the fall Giant's heads. There they were all over the field,
hundreds of them! Then there was consternation indeed! The natural
conclusion to be arrived at when the people saw the yellow Giant's
heads making their appearance above the ground was, that the rest of
the Giants were coming.

"There was one Pumpkin Giant before," said they, "now there will be
a whole army of them. If it was dreadful then what will it be in the
future? If one Pumpkin Giant gave us the Shakes so badly, what will a
whole army of them do?"

But when some time had elapsed and nothing more of the Giants appeared
above the surface of the potato-field, and as moreover the heads had
not yet displayed any sign of opening their mouths, the people began
to feel a little easier, and the general excitement subsided somewhat,
although the King had ordered out Ariadne Diana's body-guard again.

Now Æneas had been born with a propensity for putting everything into
his mouth and tasting it; there was scarcely anything in his vicinity
which could by any possibility be tasted, which he had not eaten a
bit of. This propensity was so alarming in his babyhood, that Daphne
purchased a book of antidotes; and if it had not been for her
admirable good judgment in doing so, this story would probably never
have been told; for no human baby could possibly have survived the
heterogeneous diet which Æneas had indulged in. There was scarcely one
of the antidotes which had not been resorted to from time to time.