The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-11-28
THE GIANT WATABORE.
A BIG CHILD's STORY.

giant-a scientific giant,named Wat
ADORE. This mighty giant was not
ed for deyouriDg information. Not
an idea nor an opinion could come
near him but he would swallow it in
stantly. Nothing was too much for
him. More than once he took in a
whole 'headful Of conflicting argu-
ments without choking. The coun-
try, for miles around, rang with ac-
counts of his daring and gTeed.
Well this mighty scientific giant
went on in this way, devouring in
formation and swallowing all sorts of
creeds and opinions, whether they
agreed with him or not, until at last,
as might be supposed, his system be,
came terribly out of order. His eyes
couldn't see straight; his ears decei
we'd him; his appetite was complete
ly gone; and he grew so thin that
his poor body was not an eighth of a
mile around. What to do he didn't
know. The things he had swallowed
disordered. him to such an extent
that everything went against him
The world soured on his mind. Ey-
erythiDg was confusion.
When at last he decided to call in
a frst-class homeopath -allopath nv.
dropath-electric-movement-cure cure phv-
sician, he found there was no such
person to be had. He couldn't even
get a plaster pill lotion, though he
sent to every shop in the country
And when he attempted to carry out
his idea of remaining perfectly quiet
with active exercise, he found il
wouldn't answer at all. All at once
he remembered that either the tele.
graphic locomotive engine or the
steam telegraph, he wasn't sure
which, was wonderfully good fol
something ifapplied boiling cold and
taken inwardly on soft flannel; but
his friends assured him the thing
couldn't be done, that no nurse living
would undertake to apply such a re-
medy, so he gave it up, though his
suferings were fearful. His mind
couldn't lie easy in any position and
as said before, his appetite was en-
tirely gone. Serve up facts, opinions,
theories and creeds as dalntily as his
friends might, not one could he sWal-
low.
They consulted the man in tie
moon.
"Let him take a lecture every 9th,
er night" said the man in the moon. |
1t was bitter pill, but the giant
took it. Every other night he swal
lowed lecture, but 1t didn't help
him. In fact he grew worse. There |
wasn't q point ON which his mind |
could rest comfortably. Hungrie1 |
than ever, it was useless to offer him
Nothing would 90 down. |
At last, somebody thought of |
Show him an opinion maker.
They brought him one, but it was
such little thing that the mighty |
giant could make nothing out Of it. |
at seems to be some kind of
said he; "big for q hop
5oad, yetsmallar than those skipping
5hings called horses. Fetch me a
microscope"
They brought him one. Watabore
stood the opinion maker on
lis finger and commenced to exam
ne it.
"Hap' cried the giant, "what do 1
zee? Can it be possible? The opin-
on maker is nothing but a mani
Grind my teeth! but he is at work
iow! The little midget is throwing
hem off before my very eyes,-ail
orts CT opinions, good, bad and So
o. Some of them are worse than
o-so,-positively poisonous! And
ere have 1 been gulping down his
Fares whole, without examining
hem. Odd fupps! The world must
e full of these creatures. Bring me
mother.
So the giant went on, with his mi
roscope, examining one opinion
fter another, until he arrived at the
cry sensible conclusion that these
tile creatures might be very useful
their way, but there was no reason
'hy he should let them do all his
Opinion making was
usiness in which every one had
ght to take part for himself. &
From that day the giant prosper
j. His appetite returned; but, in
cad of swallowing every opinion he r
let with, he either made very eau
GUS selections, choosing the good o
nd rejecting the bad, OF he prepared P
Is own. He collected the best raw "
aterial be could find for che pur y
ose, and took care to examine his
ock very often, so as to throw out ;,
l opinions that were not worth {.
eepiDg. And when he found an e
1inion very different from his own, az
} compared both carefully and held q
the better one. On this diet, his ".
,petite became just what healthy tu
ants appetite ought to be, and G
ats all l know Of the mighty giant q
atsbore, who lived in the year one Il
lndred and something and one =
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