Show circus giant the cause of or distractive W IA 0 flood f 1 I M the greatest of all giants said the old circus man was vms a great feller for goin in bathing he never neglected a ehi nee for that bu at the same time he had to use some sort of gumption or we had to use it for him about where he went in on oil a count of the danger there was mas hom overflow ver flow caused by his displace ment of the water I 1 well remember how me nie first came to realize this abigt twenty rods or so below the show i winter quarters there nas T as a little pond formed by damming a brooe that ran through our place there ivas was a small grist mill on this pond turned by one of thoe those old fashion fashioned ad overshot water wheels tha the giant walked down to this lit tie tle pon I 1 one warm spring day just be tore fore we took the road that year rever thinking for a minute of what must happen if he jumped into a small body of water lit e that suddenly and plunged in snakes and alligators the pond over overflowed all around and started the grist mill off its foundations and car ried away the old wheel it was like a flood you know of course down there at that end and done about damages well that opened our eyes you know to he necessity of using some sort of caution about where to let the giant go in swimming obviously it wouldn t do for us to let him jump in anywhere into any little bit of a pond that we might come across it would ost us too much money ind nd sa I 1 e and the old man had an that he go in holy where without the old mans man s per mission and we used to I 1 beep him out it tf the water all we could after that except when we showed at towns on tiie taie great lakes or at places on the coast cimity many any a woman who mat trial es a man a mighty poor wife makes him a rich husband |