The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-03-15
BEING A GIANT.

There Are Some Things That Make the
Big Man Tired.
81 suppose there is also an unpleas-
ant side to this?' l queried of the
smiling giant who sat cross-legged on
platform in the dime museum.
well, being a giant has its draw
backs as well as advantages, he re-
piled in voice which evidently travel
ed long distance before it reached his
throat
"What is the most disagreeable thing
you have to complain OFF"
Little men, sir. Singular as it may
seem, little men, especially in the west.
take an aversion to me on sight, and
cannot. tell you how tired they make
me. could pick up half a dozen quar-
rels day if 1 was bad-tempered
giant It is 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 your l asked
as he stretched out an arm and made a
fist about the size Of Wayne county
pumpkin.
"They want to fight me. he replis'
''St Paul and St Louis are tv~
worst places on the ciror'' ~ tba
times all can do 4 II e some
ses aIouno 20 hold myself when
cnap TO those towns There's
Ii St Louis I've got to reduce
: jelly before 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 fiat
as rag"
what ais that particular man?''
stHe 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
me to knock a chip off his shoulder.
The more he talks the madden he gets.
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 men?"
81 suppose So That is, have been
told that have. though have no per-
sonal knowledge of it."
ibid you ever strike anybody" 1
asked, as he kindly held me at arms
length to get kink out of the muscles
of his left arm
mo, not exactly. There was a
little man who used to hang around
the museum at Dayton, O., which is on
my circuit How that little feller did
ache for 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 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. / really
used to feel sorry for him. 1t was
enough to melt heart of stone to hear
him 90 on and call me a liar. coward,
horse thief, hypocrite, murderer, per-
iurer, 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 show"
"But you couldn't go?"
mo, am under a contract where
ever l exhibit not to kill anybody.
However, one night after the show
| went out with friend for walk. l
had temporarily forgotten all about
| the little man, but it seems that he
followed us. We were well away from
the center of the town when he pitched
into me-
ibid you know it at the timer
s'Only in a vague sort of way. We
we're talking business, and just felt
| that something annoyed me. got hold
| Of it and gave it fling; and thought no
more of it until next day when the
papers reported that the BODY of the
little man had been found in the top OF
O. shade-tree in vacant lot | suppose |
am technically to blame for his death F"
s'Such things are unpleasant
"very unpleasant indeed. But for
them a giants life would be one long
summer day, filed with ice cream, taffy
| and quail on toast In your capacity as
a newspaper man l wish you would APP
| 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 rational, genteel way when
they do come. A year hence, when my
contract expires, II forty or fifty OF
them want me to walk out on some
farmers meadow with them and give
them satisfaction / shall be perfectly
willing to oblige, but while am stu
ated as am they oughtto let me alone
VIII yon appeal to them in my behalf?'
81 will"
Gust say that until the present con
tract expires the giant hopes the sawed
off public will have the kindness not tc
make him tired. That will be about 1t
and I'll be wholly (seven feet foul
inches high and three hundred pounds
of meat obliged Detroit Free Press