:16:02
To breathe the air
and walk the fields
:16:05
and pluck the wild flowers.
:16:09
I feel...
:16:11
relieved.
:16:16
You don't worry
about Constance?
:16:18
Every afternoon,
on their way home from school,
:16:21
the children used to play
:16:22
in the garden
of the Selfish Giant.
:16:25
The garden where we play?
:16:27
No. This one's
much larger and lovelier
:16:29
with soft green grass.
:16:31
There's grass where we go.
:16:33
Yes, but are there
12 peach trees
:16:35
that burst into blossoms
of pink and pearl in springtime
:16:38
and bear rich fruit
in the autumn?
:16:40
Are there, Mama?
:16:41
I don't think there are,
Cyril, no.
:16:44
Could you hand me
a matchstick, darling?
:16:46
I'll put this hussar's
head back on. Thank you.
:16:53
The birds sat on the trees
and sang so sweetly
:16:56
that the children used to stop
their games to listen.
:16:59
"How happy we are here,"
they said to each other.
:17:02
How could they be happy
if there was a giant?
:17:05
There wasn't. Not yet.
He was away visiting a friend.
:17:08
You're always away.
:17:11
I only go away
for a night or two
:17:14
and I always come back.
:17:15
Whereas the giant
whose garden it was,
:17:17
had been staying for seven years
with an ogre in Cornwall.
:17:20
After seven years,
when he'd said all he had to say
:17:23
because his conversation
was very limited,
:17:25
he decided to return home
to his own castle.
:17:28
When he arrived and found the
children playing in his garden,
:17:32
he was very angry.
:17:33
"What are you doing here?"
he cried.
:17:36
And all the children ran away.
:17:38
"My own garden is my own
garden!" said the giant.
:17:42
"And I won't allow anyone
to play in it except myself. "
:17:46
So he built a high wall
all around.
:17:48
And put up a large noticeboard
:17:50
on which was written,
in capital letters,
:17:52
"Trespassers
will be prosecuted. "
:17:56
Arthur, you're trespassing.
:17:58
Cyril will now eat you.
:17:59
It's Mr Ross, sir,
with Mr Gray.