The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-06-03
TOLD BY THE OLD CIRCUS MAN.
The Greatest of all Giants Brought
Back in Fond Recollection.

You know" said the old circus
nan, the great giant, bag as he was,
was a very dainty man, lie liked nne,
We'll made clothes, and nice shoes,
and good linen, and one thins tnat
ne was very particular about Nas lis
nandkerchiefs.
In those days, you remember, or
| guess you don't, but | can tell you,
it was the fashion tor men to carry
their handkerchief tucked in their
outside breast coat pocket with a
corner sticking out, and that's the
way the giant always carried his,
and you can imagine what size cor
ner he used to have sticking out OF
his pocket to have it in proportion.
Hmm. 1t makes me laugh to
think of the giants handkerchiefs.
That's one thing we didn't think OF
when he first came to us, we bought
him a lot of handkerchiefs of the
usual mems size.
What's this?' says the giant,
the first time he ever tried to carry
one of them.
"You see, it was so small In pro-
portion that it dropped down into
the bottom of his pocket, and he
tried to reach in deep and fish
around for it, and 1t wasn't much
use to him either, and, of course, we
saw right away that those handker-
chiefs wouldn't do, and so we had
some made for him about three
times the usual size and those he
said would do, though he always
wished we'd had 'em made a little
bigger, and then one winter, when
the show was laid up In winter quar-
ters, a queer thing happened.
s'The laundress we had for the
washing at the headquarters house
was a nice old lady, but a little
testy, and what with the work for
the giant and all it used to keep her
pretty busy, and one day when he
went to his bureau, the giant found
he had no handkerchiefs, and he was
no picker and kicker, he didn't go
growing to old lady Mary-that
was the laundress-but he did 60 to
the old man, and say to him pleas
antly, that he seemed to be out OF
handkerchiefs.
All right says the old man.
I'll see Mary about it, and he did,
and Mary didn't say anything back
to the old man, but she says to her
self, I'll fix the giant all right. I'll
give him some handkerchiefs right
now
WED just got in a bunch of sup
plies of one sort and another for
house use, and in this bunch there
were q lot of fine new sheets, and
what Mary does was to go to the
store room and get half a dozen OF
these sheets, and then she gets the
step-ladder-she always had to use a
step ladder to get up to his top bu-
reau drawer-and in one corner OF
this drawer where the giant kept his
handkerchiefs, she laid in those
nicely folded new sheets.
"The next morning when the giant
went for handkerchief that's what
he found in the handkerchief corner
Of his top bureau drawer, and when
he had got one Of them and shaken
it out, he smiled. And then he
tucked it in his outside breast
pocket, leaving yard Of It, more or
less, sticking out, and then he goes
in to see the old man and yanks 1t
out and shows the new han dkerchief
to him, and
There he says to the old man,
there's a handkerchief that's some
thing like. I don't exactly like the
shape of it, he says, you see, it's
made longer than it is wide and he
held it up for the old man to see.
But, it's big enough he says, any
how. Now, why can't I have lot
of handkerchiefs like that, only
made square?'
"Why, you CAM says the old man.
Certainly. OF course. Why not?'
and he ordered a lot Of 'em right
away, made square, and that's the
sort OF handkerchiefs the giant car
ried always after that; at last he
had got a handkerchief that was big
enough for him. -.
"He was the greatest Of all
giants" the old circus man said,
bringing him back in sorrowing but
admiring recollection, there never
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