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Show X As Good as a j I Circus By ANTHONY REIMERT (, 1914, Wuliro Nwippr Union.) TIT you? Sure it fit youl" said Barney the tailor. "It fit you like de paper on de vail." Big Dick, the Only Original American Ameri-can Giant, surveyed the eight feet of his height, as much as be could see of it In Barney's mirror, thoughtfully. "You see," he said, blushing, "1 gotta take a girl to the beach next week on my off day. And I wouldn't like for to look like a cheap skate." "Sure, dot's so," agreed Barney. "In dot suit de peoples take you for Mr. Pierpont Morgan." "And It won't shrink? demanded the Only Original. "Shrink?" cried Barney In horror. "Vy, dot suit vouldu't lose one ampere In a million years. It's so veil shrunk already." Satisfied, Big Dick bent low and made his exit from the tailor's shop, followed by the admiring gazes of the crowd as his figure stalked along the street In the direction of the circus. Hardly had he left when Tiny Tim, the dwarf, thrust his two feet of humanity hu-manity through the doorway. "Say, I heard you make a suit for my friend Big Dick," he began. "Sure, und It fit him like de paper on de vail," said Barney. "Could you rush me a ult?" asked Tiny Tim, and a blush spread across his face. "I I'm going to take a girl to the beach next Thursday, and I wouldn't like for to look a cheap skate." "Sure, I make you a good vun," answered Barney. Tiny Tim was duly fitted, and ur-veyed ur-veyed himself In the tailor's mirror. "It seems kinder loose." he said. "You're sure It won't stretch, Barney?" Bar-ney?" "Stretch V cried Barney In horror. "Dot suit von't stretch one millionth of an Inch In a touiand years." Barney went home. Next morning, as he was about to come to his shop, he received a telephone call from his assistant "Say, that big stiff and the little one were down here with clubs looking for you, half an hour ago 1" he called. "They tried to bust up the shop and the police reserves were sent for. I beat It Just In time." "Vy, vot's the matter?" demanded Barney. "I don't know Jest what's wrong, except that the big stiff said his suit had shrunk and he couldn't take his girl to the beach." "Vy, he must have been out In a shower In It," said Barney. "And the little one was yelling that his suit had stretched." "Veil, vat does he expect of a worsted if he gets caught In the rain?" demanded Barney angrily. "Ain't they got no sense, them circus folks?" He dared not go down to his shop for several hours, but remained mournfully mourn-fully at home, trying to find out how he could stretch his fire Insurance policy to cover damages by a mob. In the end, coming to the conclusion that It was Impossible, he made a detour down to the shop, and to his Joy discovered dis-covered that the mob had gone. Except for a cracked window there was nothing amiss. A few bales of cloth had been mishandled, but Barney soon got tXem back Into place. "Veil, dey ain't done much damage," dam-age," suggested Barney. "No, I guess they gone off happy after all.". "How's dotf "I don't know, but the little feller he said something to the big feller, and both of 'em grinned and went away." Barney grunted and thought he had seen the last of them. The circus was leaving next morning, anyway. But that evening, as he was about to close, quite late, to his horror he saw the two appear In his doorway. "Hey, beat it I" he yelled, snatching up his goose. "It's all right i" they cried together. "We come to pay you for the winder. And both our girls Is going to marry us." "Say, vat's the matter mid dem suits?" demanded Barney. "They fits you like de paper on de vail." "Sure they does," answered Big Dick. "We was both kinder sore at first, but then we decided to change. This Is the suit you made for him and that suit Tim's wearing Is the one you made for me." |
