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Show Circus Giant the Cause of Destructive Flood. "The greatest of all giants," said tha old clrrua man, "waa a great toiler for goin' In bathing;; ha never neglected rhknre for that. But at the ssme time be had to use soma sort of gumption, or wa bad to use II for htm, about where be went In, on ai count of the danger (here was from evorflows caused by his displacement displace-ment ot tba water. I well remember how wa first came to realise tills. "About twenty rods or so below the show winter quarters there wss a little pond forniod by damming a brook that ran through our place. There waa a small grist mill on this pund, turnod by one of those old-fashion old-fashion sd overshot wster wheel. "Tha giant walked down to this little lit-tle pond one warm spring day u:it before be-fore we took the road that year, never thinking for a minute of what must kappen If he Jumped Into a small body of water like that suddenly and plunged In. "Snakes and alligators! The pond a ovnrtuau an aiuuml. and started the grlat mill oft Its foundations and earned ear-ned away the old wheel It was Ilka flood you know, of course, down tlrre at thu end and dona about IU0 damagea. "Well! That opened our eyaa yon ksow, to 'be netrsslty of using soma sort of caution about where to let the giant go In awnmnln'. Obviously, It wouldn't do for us to let blin Jump In gnywhere. Into auy little bit of a pond I list we might come ucross; It would lost us too much money "And s) he and the old man had an tnderstsndlig that be wouldn't go in any where without the old man'a permission; per-mission; and we used to keep hint out of the water all we could after that, except when we ahowed at towns on the Great Lakes, or at places on tba roast." |