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Show THE GIANT'S FOURTH. "No American thnt ever lived had more patriotism to the miu-irc Inch," slid tho ol I circus m in, "nnd so, when Pi'trlli of Jutj came around ho nlwnjs wanted lo ciUbrnte, nnd but 1 guess vvo'vt known ntlur grown-ttpi that were like hlm In litis lesp.cl, he? Mg iis he WUB Ihe Ktenlcst nt nil giants liked tu shoot on tlr.tr ick- rs and that sort nt thing, und so the old unit used lo provide him wtth fourth if July things of this sort In anipli fiutittllty nut In sizes proportioned lo Ihe gre.tt Riant htmsilf. torpeduis Ihe site .it turnips, llrecr ickors the sire of rolling pins, and so on, evirythliig suit ihle "Tl'u giant's romnn tnndles, for In. itttnce. wcro of aliout tlte length of a klulien boiler nnd nbnttt half ns big iiroiind: nnd when tlie Limit lit ono of Ihero nnd held :t up mid waved it nround in ihe nlr above his li'id. them wns sonn-thlng sonn-thlng more thnn a imro uentle sjirny of spnrks nut nf it, this rnndlc was a gient fountain of nre. and Ihe lirelnlls th it popped out of It ever second or two wero pr.tly neir ns big us watermelons Now, that, sou know, to see lite great glunt stntidlng up shooting nit a Itomiui candle of Ihnt sort Ihnl wns something worth seelnj And when th giant hid And one of lltese great cnndles out he d Just give the empts lube a Hint:, careless like. Just like nu nnd 1 would a common sired candle tube, and turn tn semi thing dse It was grent, but of all llii thtngl that the glint Usui to lire off In this wn), pirsnnjllv, llomiin canilles and nil, the thing, ntler nil, thnt und tn ik iso tlie peopto most wns tlie skjroekels ' I lie sksroiliets Hint vvo used to hnvo mode for tho gtent glint hnd heads of just nhout tho sue nnd prnimrtlons of n cj Under stove, the sticks for Hit in being ptout. strnlght snpllngs uliuiit the sire of a eedir beanpole and nhotit twite ns long We usel tn bring rrom New York only lite roektt lieaels, contrnctlng In ndvnnee, nt wherever wo were going to be on the riiuriit of Jul. for a sttftlelent nutitier ot Ihesn'lilK siblings and getting the lire-works lire-works m in. vvlun ho came out with tho things, tn wire the hinds nnlo them 'And these rockets ctrlulnlj wero tremendous tre-mendous We used to ninke a ro ket rest out of some suitably grown nnd uultnhly sltunttd tree, snwlng off Hie hrnnchts Jut nbove the crotch und leaning Ihe rotket lu tint Ihe Until usol to loutn 'ini oft Willi n clgir It was nlwnis sort of funny, somehow, to see hlm, nfler he hn 1 got one of thoso rockets stood up there, tike a foot-and-a tim'fSSe wlfihrftU,,!-',hil." m0Ulh '"", ,mic" uio xtiito -niih it, but It wni fmini fur a K0n,K.'l1n.oucn- w"" nriiTr? rocket in nn Instant becntne somtthlng terrific .J.,",1"" ,hr "h with the roar ot nn express trn n gn ng thrnush a liimii It left bihln.1 llaK trail llkeTh.'isV'o'fi great cpnut. and when It exploded It fulr-v fulr-v Idled Hi skj Willi meteors nnd slioVil-Ing slioVil-Ing stars, riin ieo,io used lo foruet even one of theso sk rockets ..."?. 5 ," wh" ''"ourth of July enmn Jo? ".".'i'1 to, YV.P ""' "reworks ills, li" llko this, nil to tho gnat -Jam s great de-llsht de-llsht and I mlUiV add that thero wero few things. 1$ nny. that no evir did. Hint seemed to glv'e a more v hid nnd iirofouiiii "o'rk'sun" l th nJl p"wic.i31ow |