Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-03-07


 by the stars will come out -one by ore with twinkling brightness, and present. ly the moon with majesty unknown in temperate zones will flood the heav- ems with its silvery sheen; but mean while the fog hangs over the river and even the dazzling torches at the head of the sampan fail to make an object g dozen paces distant visible.
 ''Can you take your spell at the pad dle, MT. Dunbar; or has the miasma of this accursed stream poisoned your blood?" Campignon asked, barring his own arm for the ni1htlv tniI
 BEING A GIANT.
 There Are Some Things That Make che Rig Man Tired.
 'I suppose there is also an unp cas- ant side to this?" I queried of the smiling giant who sat cross-legged on 8 platform in the dime museum.
 Well, being a giant has its draw backs as well as advantages" he re piled in a voice which evidently travel ed long distance before it reached his | throat
 What is the most disagreeable thing you have to complain of?'' | Little men, sir. Singular as it may seem, little men, especially in the west, take an aversion to me on sight, and I cannot tell you how tired they make me. could pick up half dozen quar- rels day if was a bad-tempered | giant. It is a good thing for some of these small fry that am what am an even-tempered man, under an iron clad contract not to strike anybody"
 'How do they bother you?" I asked as he stretched out an arm and made a fist about the size of Wayne county pumpkin.
 ''They want to fight me-" he replied. ''St. Paul and St Louis are two of the worst places on the circuit. It is some- times all can do to hold myself when get around to those towns There's a chap in St. Louis I've got to reduce to jelly before I can take real solid comfort in this world. Yes, I've got to reach out for him some day, get hand on either side, and squeeze him as flat as rag"
 "What ails that particular man?"
 ''He gets two or three drinks into him and then comes into the museum and stands before me and calls me names and spits on his hands and .dares l me to knock a chip off his shoulder.
 
 and the last time was there he had his coat off and was about to pitch into me when the policeman put him out. Some of the spectators say he actually did strike me, but didn't feel it" 'Then you have sometimes been as- saulted by these little men2"
 ''I suppose so. That is have been told that have, though I have no per SODal kn0wledpe of if g
 "Did you ever strike anybody" I asked, as he kindly held me at arms | length to get kink out of the muscles of his left arm.
 "No, not exactly. There was little man who used to hang around the museum at Dayton, O., which is on my circuit How that little feller did ache for a row with me. I've seen him feel so bad that he cried like child They said that he was the most peace full man in that community when I was away, but the minute he heard was in town he became cantankerous He'd come into the musee and offer me everything he had on earth to go out side the corporation with him. I really used to feel sorry for him. It was enough to melt heart of stone to hear him go on and call me liar, coward, horse thief, hypocrite, murderer, per jurer, coyote, hyena, and so forth, and then plead with me by all held sacred to go out into the suburbs with him and give him a show.''
 But you couldn't go?"
 "No, am under a contract where ever I exhibit not to kill any body. | However, one night after the show I went out with friend for walk I had temporarily forgotten all about the little man, but it seems that he followed us. We were we'll away from the center of the town when he pitched into me-"
 ''Did you know it at the time?" "Only in vague sort of way. We were talking business, and I just felt that something annoyed me. got hold of 1t and gave it fling; and thought no more of it until next day when the papers reported that the booy of the little man had been found in the top of a shade-tree in a vacantl lot suppose am technically to blame for his death"
 'Such things are unpleasant" "Very unpleasant indeed. But for them a giants life would be one long summer day, filled with ice cream, taffy and quail on toast In your capacity as a newspaper man I wish you would ap- peal to the sawed-off men of this coun- try to either keep away from the dime museum altogether, or to conduct them selves in a rational, genteel way when they do come. A year hence, when my contract expires, if forty or fifty of them want me to walk out on some farmers meadow with them and give them satisfaction I shall be perfectly willing to oblige, but while am situ- ated as am they ought to let me alone. Will you appeal to them in my behalf?" "I will"
 Just say that until the present con- tract expires the giant hopes the sawed off public will have the kindness not to make him tired. That will be about it, and I'll be wholly (seven feet four