The Redwood gazette., 1902-07-30
THE HUMAN FREAK.

Al the beginning O1 lIe
eighteenth century the freak
as an entertainment was well
come in the very highest cir
cles in England, and it was no
unusual thing to announce at
the foot of placards or hand
bills that blazoned his attrac-
tons, IF any person of Quail
ty, Gentlemen. or Ladies, do
desire to see this remarkable
person at their own Houses,
they are desired to send timely
notice, and he will be ready to
wait upon them in coach or
chair any time they please to
appoint if in the day time y
And certainly the freaks to be
sen in those years make our
own more limited modern COL
leclions insignificant by COM
parison.
The "painted PRINCE Giolo,
who was for a season exhibit
ed at the Blue Boar's Head, in
Fleet street, was perhaps moth
ing very out of the way. He
had a map of his own country
and other geographical illus
trations tattooed on his breast,
but we do not lay much store
by tattooed people even in
these enlightened days, and
his more marvellous rivals can
hardly have suffered from his
competition.
For how can a mere tatoOed
prince show to advantage in
the town with a Dutch gentle
man whose mouth was under
his chin and his eyes where
his mouth should have been?
How could he expect to do any
business when close by, at
the Kings Head, in the
Strand, there was a young man
who possessed two bodies and
only one head, and at Charing
Cross there was monstar
with head like a child and a
long tail like serpent,
"wherewith he feeds himself
as an elephant doth with his
trunk?'
The last years of the seven
teenth and the first years of
the eighteenth centuries are
unquestionably the golden age
for freaks. There was rather
slump in giants and dwarfs,
so that unless the former were
we'll ever seven feet high und
the latter under thirty inches
they found it difficult to make
both ends meet, But a man
who was half man and half
beast was not always to be
had for the asking. You
could see MIN at Moncreff' S
coffee house, in Treadneedle
street, however. and the sight
was considered cheap at six
pense.
There was a dwarf a foot and
three-quarters high and who
habitually walked on h1s
hands; there was boy covered
with bristles like a hedgehog
a living skeleton whose entire
anatomy became visible when
you set him against the sun
a man with one body and two
heads, one above the other, or
even Of the gifted Spaniard
who could "extend his mouth
six inches and turn it into
the shape of bird beak and
could loll ont his tongue a foo,
long and click his nose with i,
like a cow. .-London Stand.
ard.
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