The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-16
TOLD BY THE OLD CIRCUS NAN.
Greatest OF All Giants Brs0gf1t Back In
Peud ReCotleDtiou.

Fsod Reoeieotsn.
.You know said the old circus man,
the great giant, big ~ he was, wa a
very dainty man; no liked nno. we'll made
clothes and nics shoes and good linen, and
ono thing that he was very particular
about was his handkerchief.
SIN those days, you remember, or l guess
you don't, but I can tell you, It was the
fashion for men TO carry their hand.
r. erohief tucked in their outside breast
ooat pocket with q corner sticking out
and that's the way the giant always cal.
ried his and you an imagine what size
corner me used TO have sticking out Of his
pocket to have It In proportion.
.Hm-m. 1t makes me laugh to think
n the GIANTS handkerchief That's one
thing we didn't think Of when he first
came to us and we bought him a lot Of
handk erchiefs Of the usual sire.
.'What's thisf' says the giant the first
time he ever tried to use them.
sYou zee it was 70 small in proportion
that It dropped down into the bottom OF
his pocket and he had to reach in deep and
fab around for II and 1t wasn't much use
to him either and Of course we saw right
away that those handkerchiefs wouldn't
do and 20 We had some made for him
about three times the usual size and those
he said would do though he always wished
we'd bad 'em made q little bigger and then
one winter when the show was In winter
quarters a queer thing happened.
THE laundress We had for the washing
at the headquarters house was a nice old
lady but q little testy. and what with the
vork for the giant and all II used to keen
her pretty busy and one day when he went
to his bureau the giant found he had no
h~andkerchiefs, and he was no picker and
Kicker, he didn't 20 growing to old lady
Mary-that was the laundress-but he
did 70 to the old man and say to him
pleasantly that he seemed to be out Of
h~andkerchiefs.
IAN right says the old man, IN
500 Mary about it, and he did. and Mary
didn't say anything back TO the old man,
but she says TO herself: IN fix the giant
all right III give him some handker-
chiefs right now.
wed just got in a bunch Of supplies
of one sort and another for house use and
in this bunch there raj a lot Of fine new
|the ~storeroom and get half q dozen Of
these sheets and then she gets the step
hdder-she always had to use q step
adder 10 ~ up TO his top bureau drawer
and n The corner Of this drawer. where
the 1iant kept his handkerchief, she
laid q thoss nicely folded g sheets:
sThs mart morning when the giant
went for . handkerchief that's Whist he
found IN Ne handkerchief corner OF his
top bureau drawer. and when be had got
one al them and shaken II out he smiled.
he tucked itin his outside breast pocket,
Having . yard Of It. more or less. sticking
out, and then he goes in to see the old
mar and yahks II out and shows him the
new handkerchief,
There says be to the old man.
there's . handkerchief that's something
IKE, ! don't exactly like the shape Of
it, he says; you SEQ it's made longer
than Il ID wide and he held It up for the
old man to zee: but it's big enough,
he says, anyhow. Nov, Why can't |
have . lot Of h~andkerchiefs like that.
only made squaSe?'
why you cApl' says the old man.
Certainly. OF course. Why not?' and
he ordered q lot Of EN- right away made
square. and that's the sort Of handler
chief the giant carried always after that;
at last he had got q handkerchief that was
big enough for him.
tHe was the greatest Of all giants, tho
old circus man said. bringing him back
in sorrowing but admiriug recollection,
.there never was another like him. !
wish you could have seen him.