The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-07
OUEER CASE OF
Or-re ZEKE HIGGINS.
This Time He Went to Extremes
AMI Was Sueeessively Mite
and a Giant.

Zeke Higg ins began to tire Of expert
menting, so he finally settled down and
tried to be good. But it was useless. and
one morning he awoke to find that his collar
was much too large.
He looked it over carefully, think ng
ii might baong to his grandfather, who
had a neck big enough for a small COW. A
and when he looked in the mirror he thought
o. rubber neck, for his throat wabbled
inside the collar with plenty OF room to
spare
agined he must be wearing pair belong
Ing to the hired girl. But II was a mistake.
The shoes were his own.
He had to shuttle along to keep them
from dropping on BY the time he had
yard he looked at his feet, and for the
life Of him he couldn't tell which way he
was going. His feet had grown 80 small
that the shoes We're walking heels first.
bsye i've sa tn me- into ne Sss
Then he misssd his hands. He moved
his arms excitedly, and while he could feel
that the hands still stuck to his arms he
couldn't see them.
rubbing the ends Of the arms together,
and 50 found his hands, which seemed o
have grown very small.
He realized that he was shrinking rapidly.
II staggered the boy, and while he was won
saw his knickerbockers down 30 low that
thew touched his wabbly shoes.
He started for the house on the run, and
while going, began to fear that he might
me.t Tom Stringer, the town bully.
fine thing for Tom he said. +He could
whip ma with one hand tied behind him
while am as small as this
Ieke's mother gave a half dozen scr cams
when she saw him coming in to the house
as small as he had been when he was only
8 years old He quickly told what had
happened, and she hunted up an old suit
which he had outgrown. a.,
Hastily dressing him in this suit. abe ran
wanted to see the wonderful boy. BY the
time they arrived Zeke had grown 30 small
they had to send out and borrow some
clothes from a boy who was years old
and small for his age.
The doctors asked all sorts Of queer
Questions, and in half an hour more they
had 10 put a two-year-old suit on him,
and this took good deal OF time, as he was
no bigger than baby when they had An
isgee,d-and he was still growing smaller.
room. whereihey talked for fifteen minutes,
and decided that they didn't know a blessed
thing about the case. When they returned
they found zoke about half the size Of the
smallest baby they had ever seen.
Ne seemed healthy and all right. 80 the
medical men thought It might do him good
10, take u little walk in the yard. fine
slIk handkerchief was wrapped around him;
Tor no clothes small enough to At him could
De found, and he was told to 20 out into
the yard while the doctors talked over
ms strange disease.
Nith a hop, skip and jump he went
ol' The wise men wiped the perspiration
from their brows and gased in puzzled
manner al zach other.
II took them half an hour this time TO
o'cld" they didn't know anything that would
cause this sudden shrinkage, and by that
,une the whole town had heard Of II and
nad crowded into the yard, hoping to get
sight of the boy
IN y few minutes there was little excite
meht IN ono corner OF the yard and along