Now, everything in Giantland was so big, that the common people saw only a
mass of awful mountains and clouds; and no living man had ever come from
it, as far as anybody knew, to tell what he had seen in it.

"Somewhere near these borders, on the other side, by the edge of a great
forest, lived a labourer with his wife and a great many children. One day
Tricksey-Wee, as they called her, teased her brother Buffy-Bob, till he
could not bear it any longer, and gave her a box on the ear. Tricksey-Wee
cried; and Buffy-Bob was so sorry and ashamed of himself, that he cried
too, and ran off into the wood. He was so long gone, that Tricksey-Wee
began to be frightened, for she was very fond of her brother; and she was
so sorry that she had first teased him, and then cried, that at last she
ran into the wood to look for him, though there was more chance of losing
herself than of finding him. And, indeed, so it seemed likely to turn out;
for, running on without looking, she at length found herself in a valley
she knew nothing about. And no wonder; for what she thought was a valley
with round, rocky sides, was no other than the space between two of the
roots of a great tree that grew on the borders of Giantland. She climbed
over the side of it, and right up to what she took for a black, round-
topped mountain, far away; but she soon discovered that it was close to
her, and was a hollow place so great that she could not tell what it was
hollowed out of. Staring at it, she found that it was a doorway; and,
going nearer and staring harder, she saw the door, far in, with a knocker
of iron upon it, a great many yards above her head, and as large as the
anchor of a big ship. Now, nobody had ever been unkind to Tricksey-Wee,
and therefore she was not afraid of anybody. For Buffy-Bob's box on the
ear she did not think worth considering. So, spying a little hole at the
bottom of the door, which had been nibbled by some giant mouse, she crept
through it, and found herself in an enormous hall, as big as if the late
Mr. Martin, R.A., had been the architect. She could not have seen the