Answers to The Serving Giant Riddle
In my last newsletter I invited your answers to the following riddle in the story The Serving Giant:
Here are the answers you submitted:
Be my friend—because friends don’t eat friends.
Protect me for the rest of my life.
Become a vegetarian.
Get back into the bottle—then put the top back on.
Drink half the water from the well, then half of what’s left, then half of what’s left, then half of what’s left, and continue doing it forever because he could never drink 100%.
These are all great answers! And now (drum roll please!) The answer found in the book Five Minute Tales by Margaret Read MacDonald…
The farmer told the giant to set a pole forty meters tall in front of his house and to climb to the top, then come back down, then climb up again…and not stop until the farmer gave the order to quit. The giant is still climbing up and down the pole to this day!