The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1906-01-12

| Ucl uUOT Ou tuAt Sidc was ldi tIei
who had four stacks Of hay in a field
just the other side of that fence, and
the stairway just caught each of those
haystacks right at the base and picked
up and shook out and scattered the
whole lot of them, one after another,
all over CREATION And at the next
jump it made it broke the hayowner's 8
arm and tore the roof off his wood
shed.
at bounced along the field after
tearing up the haystacks and happen
ed to be on an upward bounce when it
struck the woodshed and caught un-
der tie caves. Tue farmer had come
ont along with everybody else when
the kite started, and be rushed up and
grabbed the stairs and tried to bold
them, but puff of wind on the kite
pinned his arm between the stairs and
the shed, and the next instant away
went the roof leaving nothing of it but
sticks and shingles, and away went
the stairs, tearing up fields beyond
and tearing down fences on the way
until it came TO road, where some
thing really extraordinary happen
ed.
"This road ran east and west, and
there was coming along it at the time
a horse and wagon, headed east. The
stairway boun ded clean over the last
fence by this road without touching
that, but, as it sailed over one end Of
it hit this wagon a smashing blow and
turned the whole uu Ii tlDrs., wa or
and all, clan around IN the road so
that the horse headed west, and it
started, with the wreck of the wagon.
running away, in that direction, Just
contrary to the way it had b ZEN head
ing a minute before, while the kite
dragged the stairs along across the
road and through the fence on the
other ride and on into the next
field.
"Not very far from the fence in this
field there was a big moss grown
boulder, too big to move, and which
the farmer had never thought it worth
while to blast out, and not far beyond
this was the farmers house and barn.
Moving fast and tearing. things up
generally on the way, and with an ex-
ira blast hitting the kite at just that
minute, when the stairs hit this bould-
tr they slid up the side of 1t and high
into the air and turned around and
came down end first like a great bat
tering ram and smashed half their
length through the side Of this farm
sr's big barn. You never saw such
destruction anywhere.
but tuat was the end of it. Com
ing on the run we'd come up with the
flying stairway now, and the giant got
his hands on the kite line and hauled
in the kite, and We got the stairway
out of the hole in the barn and started
home, with the giant ahead carrying
the kite, and some of the circus men
carrying what there was left Of the
stairs, marching back across country
along the line that the stairs had
ploughed up.
And the old man paid all the bills
cheerfully. He was always willing
and more than willing to do anything
be could to amuse the giant, the great
est circus attraction that ever took
the road, to make him happy and
keep him comfortable. But the giant
never flew any kites after that, he
didn't want to.
He'd just had little mild attack
Of kite fever, that's all, and now it
was all over. He was freak in size
only. In other ways he was just like
the rest of us.''-N. Y Sun.