The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-04-25
the OLD CIRCUS
MANS STORY
How the Great Clients Singing
Voice Hlt the People

"A very curious thing about the |
greatest Of ali giants, said the old cir
Gus man, was the difference between
his speaking and his singing voice.
"His speaking voice was that Of q
man of ordinary stature; his singing
voice was in keeping with his own gi-
gantic size. And we never discov-
cred this ourselves until he had been
with US for some months not in fact
till the end Of the first season with
us, when we'd gone into winter quar-
ters.
I'VE we're sitting, the old man, the
giant and myself, In that room that
I've told you about that we had fixed
up for the giant by taking out a sec
ond-story floor and so carrying a
ground floor room up through two
stories to give the giant head room
sitting there one evening about a
couple Of days after we'd come In from
the road, and pretty soon we heard
the cook, over in the kitchen at the
other end Of the house, humming q
tune; and then the first thing we knew
we heard the giant singing It, And
singing7 Why, you never heard any
thing like It; and nobody would have
believed, If he hadn't heard 1t, that
anybody could have such voice.
For comparison 1t was like the
roar Of Niagara compared to the sound
Of little waterfall over q stone in q
brook. Sound? Why, thought II
was going to make the walls bulge and
blow out the windows.
And it wasn't a harsh, rough voice,
you understand, either; It was a good,
smooth voice; not the most beautiful
voice you ever heard, but still q
smooth, round deep voice of the most
amazing volume, vastly greater than
anything you had ever dreamed Of in a
human voice, and it made the old
man and me sit up in wonder.
"And when the giant stopped We
found the whole circus was standing
around outside the headquarters build
ing-animal men, canvas men, drivers
the whole outfit had come up to heGI
the giant sing, and these were men
you know, accustomed to strange
things We had s0-odd acres in oul
reservation, but you could hear thu
giants voice in the furthest corner O
1t, and I didn't know then how mucl
further beyond; and at the first not
, Of It men had stopped their work ant
, then they had all come to listen.
AS was saying to you, you coul'
hear the giants voice all over the res
ervation, and l didn't know how ia
!. beyond; but we soon found out abou
, that. The village was only abou
! three-quarters Of mile away, and o
4 still nights and when the wind wa
: right you could hear his singing the
: plainly; and It didn't exactly scare II
4 people; they all knew the giant An
q they all liked him, but they all wer
!. TO bed early, and that wonderful SCUM
!. coming to them after they had gon
= to bed did disturb EN- somewhat. An
= 80 the old man got the giant not
sing after nine o'clock at night; an
that winter he had him practice up Q
a number OF songs, which Of cOurI
he was going to have the giant sin
I under canvas in our next season G
the road.
!. I'm those days, you know, We use
Il to give a concert after the show; ser
r. around men before the last act selliE
4. tickets for this concert, and then whC
,e the show was over people that hadr
bought tickets would pass out Al
N those that had would stay to the 90
& cert and sometimes half the peop
! would stay, or maybe only a quart
= Of en-; but whatever we got that vi
u was velvet, and what the old man W
i. going to do was to substitute for 4