Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-12-17

have been done 10 K in the way Of fXing Il up
and clearing it from rubbish, and that so what
have noticed may be the result of clumsy at
tempts 10 improve il. | ask the keeper If any
thing has been done to the giants hand lie
saws not anything, except that perhaps the rope
may have scraped it in taking it from its bed
| 90 and look at that hand again. | am not
satisfied with it | cannot think it was ever
alive. There Is one point about that hand,
confess, which at q little distance is very eI-
pressi'e, and helps TO give meaning to the more
massive muscles Of the giant figure. The point
to which refer is a certain depression Of the
middle joints Of the fingers, as if the joints were
wasted and the fingers bent little backward,
as they lie upon the body This effect is very
fne and in strict harmony with the life like ap-
rearance of the figure. But this Is p general
feature extending entirely across the hand.
Coming nearer 10 the hand and examining its
parts, the muscles do not seem to me " to
sneak" And can | be mistaken in a notion |
have that there is as much language in hand
as in an entire figure beside2 Ii there was not
enough Of the giants hand, | could understand
it, or if there we're accretions from a natural
cause, I think that could be understood; /;
hut when there is a woolenness - about
it, DO not know What to think. | am in
cined to think my instinct IS true in the matter,
mau. If had spent only an hour in the CON-
psny Of the giant | would not have found this
evidence npon which base NY conclusion.
Now, what is the giant | need the aid Of an
other sense beside that Of sight, limited 10 the
exterior Of the thing to convince me. Having
last my respect for him is having once teen a
living creature, cherish tue sentiment that 1t
would be fue thing to not only drill into him.
but pu, in q charge Of gun powder and explode
him IN short, aG inclined 10 say, Blast the
thing But there is 20 ua - tslkiug about
that woui like to pound him To- STE how 1t
would sound. I notice tina; the keeper hits him
"a tap usw AMI then with the handle Of g l,.ie
broom g. please some customer % whom he is
talking. The sound Is not exactly like rock Il
is not exactly like iron OF metal. 1t seems to
come nearer to tle sound o.. O p.aster csst, and
set .t is perhaps more Ike stone than that lie
don't strike hard enough to fairly bring out any
definite sound. ask him 20 give his rtcumteut
associate some emphatic blows; be informes me
that the uallcj used for that purpose is not yet
at hand lie was honest in that. for have
since ies-uei ;hl, be has got it out, and that,
puttrg piece Of cloth on the figure o. rr0teet
1.-THE whacks away 0n the cloth, producing muf-
tel s.lai. ir seems that there is some result,
as one ui the Ci-u,'s customers has offered go bet
% hundred dollars that tie thing is east iron.l ]
tliLai With t1e keeper about how it sounds when
struck BE trI me that be thinks the head is
lolov, aai iu,.maies thlt u is usually With
r..-ii .efiaur
This keeper with whom We have conver-si Is
replaced IS d. fresh one. ask him how the giau;
responded when struck. He =lys there Is % me-
Dll1 sound c1mcs from him. For myself dare
not indulge ia the cast iron theory. Itlke it
that good substantial ceologi-f- are not g. be
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