The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-08-11
TIE GIANfS' HOME.
Where Captain and Mrs Bates Find PLENTY
of Room and Comfort.

Where Ca plain and Mrs Bates Find PLENTY
Of Room and Comfort.
Cantain and M-s u p..--.-l~ e'-At UVu-
pie, are, IN certain sense, the most
prominent people in Ohio. They arc
pretty sure to be prominent wherever
they are. The captain once went in
bathing on the Jersey Goa st, and he says
the fishermen put out in boats to haf-
poon him because they thought he was
whalo. But this may be fish story.
They certainly form the highest geo.
graphical points in the neighborhood Of
their homo ut Seville. Ohio. Mrs
Bates is tribe the higher, but, AZ
height is a touchy point with gian.si
she, out of delicate feelings for the cap
tain, rarely refers to this fact. or else
attributes 1t to her coiffure. Their home
at Seville is the place f,r which the,
long when they are not ON their travels.
1t is not surprising that people neatly
eight feet tall and broad in proportion,
do not find berth in sleeping Car
conveniently roomy or feel quite sic a;
table dhO'6 on cane bottom chairs.
Therefore it is that their spirits rise
when homewaid bouad. As they pass
through the door Of tho railroad Car at
thsir .ANpl sitaiiiagy leaYn rtS"ff 80 Travelling. Yelling
A coach drawn by eight stout Norman
horses is in waiting. 1t is about as
broad as the roadway, and the wheels
are about as large as those en- the pom
derous wagons used to haul granite or
marble shafts. When they are comfort.
ably seated the coachman cracks his
whip. and the vehicle goes lnmhnrine
along toward the giants house. a little
way ont of the town. Other drivers on
the road, seeing the giants equipage
coming, take down tho fence rails and
drive into the adjoining fields until the
enormous vehicle has passed.
An immense stone building looms up
and soont tho carriage is pulled up in
front OF the entrance. If an ordinary
sized person is with the giants they
kindly give him boost or two up the
steps. Then they pass stately and erect
through hall ten feet high. Tho head
OF person OF medium height would
about reach to tho door knob. They
enter spacious hall, and go from there
to parlor with doors also ten feet high,
and windows in proportion. The chairs
are 40 large that ordinary mortals have
to climb into them as babies have into
their high chairs. In the sitting room
the piano is the only piece Of furniture
of ordinary size; but it is mounted on
blocks about three feet high, so that the
key board is up in the air. Thus the
giant couple manage to escape annoy
ance from visitors with musical procliv-
tiles. In this room are two huge rock.
ing chairs. In one Of them the captain
deposits his AIS pounds, and placidly
contemplates his wife sewing the seams
Of many yards of silk for a new dress
with regulation train. On the table is
large album containing photographs Of
hundreds of fellow uriosities-bearded
women, two-headed and four-legged
women, giants, dwarfs, living skeletons,
and the like, all of whom the couple
know intimately, Next to this room, In
which they take their meals, is their
bedroom. The bedroom which is ihe
smallest of the rooms, contains q bed
ten feet long, and broad Ia proportion.
There is also bureau, with glass as
large as the wall of an ordinary room.
All the furniture is of mahogany and
highly finished, the giants having
spared no expense. Visitors quarters
are up stairs. where the rooms and
furniture are OF ordinary size, AS is also
the dinner service, for the giants are not
large eaters.
The farm comprises 100 acres of Gull
tivated land. and the captain takes great
pleasure in busying himself around the
place. He is respected in the neighbor-
hood, aud noted for his courtesy and
hospitality.