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Show THE OLD CIRCUS MAN Tells of Mishaps That Finally Led the Giant to Cut Out the Stilt-Walking Act. 'Oh je anld the old , li u min 'in tried th. Riant nm tills a a mattei nf (a, t hla Btllt wnlkltiK wiib nn. nr (h. Ktealiat Ihlnga In did but foi all that hn did It mil) one at nop on n.ioiiut of the ilak to the ghint Involvi I In It (If imiiae 111! atllt IhibIiii bb waa ail outrloor in t an 1 iih fur na thnt goea there w ibii l alwnya loom for It cven lliiu thai la wheie we wanteil to give It 'I he nl nil h atllt-w ilklnu wna mm. inoitl) done lu otu elrrtia painde lit role In hiKliitlllig of the allow the giant manning at the hen 1 of the pioceaalon bethei lu mil. do tint m not depended de-pended on how tin tnea wete along the line or linn ib 'III tievei roret the acaio we hn.l ome lu a town or VV.Btern Ohio, wh n the giant waa walking In the inuade iitei u iitnawii) along the , of inn nh a pair of hoiaea hooked to a fni in wagoti "Ihla fuinier hail gut hla team aa plents m.ne hid fm that mat-lir mat-lir hauled up at the aide of thi atieet tn ae, tin pnrail. go bv and tin h, b weir all llKlu and tin i d Im Bti I all right If It ha. In t lust bo hupi ened that tin Bte.ui) nilllni linn atnitnl up a tune nn thi i illlope Juat na he enmo I aliienn of tin in I rimt in idi ill the hnraea around tli' i iiivoit miir. ni Icbb hut It aceim-d I ti throw thoM- two old plough nag" plm ih off tb It bill iiuc and befoie veu .nuld think (In v lira nit on the ib i I Jump alotir the Btieet toiviutt the head or tin line with the old farmer Baiting on em aa h ml na he rould but without an) aort of efrnt nnd awa) they Hint two wild horaea, with 1 faun wngun awlnglng nnd bobbins in omul la hind them and ociup)lng preit) iniiili the whole roid be-irlng Btialght down nn the meit Rl nu walking walk-ing nhuid tbeie nn hla Milts Did the giant git lout In thla e-illemenf e-illemenf Not for a minute 1ut one look hoik when he lnui.1 the clatter and what do vnu auppiae he did" Hill ho dldii t even ti) to get out or the wn) lie Juat apre.ul hla feet, or intliei bin atlltB apart an that the foot nf one waa In Ihe fool or the other In th gutter on tb other nnd let the run- I niviiv teuni go unlet him between tin in' Hut Blh k and ran) na the great limit I I nm, out of this ilnngti the old mnn wna alt wroupht up over wha might have lit) penerl fiom It and ho said tight then tint one mote attniv and vveM cut nit the suit n.t for goo I h tinny but wo not tint Btnw the ver next dnv ' In thla town It wua lcnr anlllnr for the giant all along the unto ixrept at Jutd one point whero two old trees with low -hanging briinchea made thi street inipaeaiihle for hhn Hut with unl) this one Impediment we thought we 1 let him go It, he could Hep iitoitn I tint 'He lame along down lb it atieet toweili g in on hla Hllta to the -uiiare-ment na ttau il of all behold. i ml he nine to thla phue when hi ha I to turn out ' There waa hero ut this point a bron.l alretdied of bilik .tvet aldevvilk thin being In ftont of the own hill Aa be stepped up on thnt hrb k allewnlk on, of hla atllta llppd on the hrb ka and the first thing jou know In ginv. there waa the glnnt with hla atllta alld-Inc alld-Inc nroun I on that smooth pnvement and be weaving itound up tlieie In the nlr making a deaperite ( ffort to tecovir hlinstir ' It nil nine In n minute but there he waa now railing appiirentlv and hnven onl) kniw what h irm he'd do himself when hn went down Hut the gte.it giant didn't go down or not In a wn:' to hurt blmaeir Thla town hnil wna a kind nf an old-fashioned old-fashioned colonial aoit of a building with a biluatrtde along the front of the roof Just back or the eavea nnd now when the atllta had slid and he found be lotiHn t lecover himself the glunt threw the stilts away from him nnd made n Jump for the top rail of that biluatrnde along the edge of tlio i oof ' He Inlendel to hang on bj thnt for minute und then (Imp lo the groun 1 na a ho) won! I drop from a fence, and In fnrt that drop from the raiting nlonr the loof of this building would have been just about the game thing for the glint as the bova drorplns frnm n f.me would be foi him Well ah h- landed with hla lianda on the rilling nil right and hlmaelf slinging down the rront of the build-Ing build-Ing mil waa Just tibout lo lt go when the railing gate wav under hla weight It waa old anl rotten nnd punk) nnd the first thing aoii know the giant dropped with that balustrade mining a-toppllng down over lila head nflcr him ' Hut the giant uded aqunre and true on his fiet .uiie tinhnitiieil thnt nitten oil woolen rnlllng .lenrlng him all tight anl going to airmail on tho pavement six oi right feet In hind him ' One nf the stllta had Mine through a window of the town hall and the other had killed a horse but we were gtate-fut gtate-fut the) hadn I either nf them killed some human In lug and with the giant unhurt and the entire d image In the town hall not more thin J7T or J1H0 nt Ihe oulalile tu Mt (hot we could af-lord af-lord to feel pre'tt well aatalfled "Hut the old man aald no more fool-Ing fool-Ing with the glaut on atllta It might l,e a f,rent ii t an I all that and drew Hie peo e but we toulin't afford to take anv risk nt nil u the great glmit VmV f'0 .VV" ""' n th, K"Bt U'nnta atlll-walklng York Mm |