_No False Paintings!_
THE WILD INDIAN,
THE
GIANT BOY,
And the
DWARF FAMILY,
_Never here before_,
TO BE SEEN ALIVE!
Mr. Thomas Day was the reputed father of the dwarf family, and exhibited
himself as small enough for a great wonder; as he was. He was also
proprietor of the show; and said he was thirty-five years of age, and
only thirty-five inches high. He fittingly descanted on the living
personages in whom he had a vested interest. There was a boy six years
old, only twenty-seven inches high. The _Wild Indian_ was a
civil-looking man of colour. The _Giant Boy_, William Wilkinson
Whitehead, was fourteen years of age on the 26th of March last, stood
five feet two inches high, measured five feet round the body,
twenty-seven inches across the shoulders, twenty inches round the arm,
twenty-four inches round the calf, thirty-one inches round the thigh,
and weighed twenty-two stone. His father and mother were “travelling
merchants” of Manchester; he was born at Glasgow during one of their
journies, and was as fine a youth as I ever saw, handsomely formed, of
fair complexion, an intelligent countenance, active in motion, and of
sensible speech. He was lightly dressed in plaid to show his limbs, with
a bonnet of the same. The artist with me sketched his appearance exactly
as we saw him, and as the present engraving now represents him; it is a
good likeness of his features, as well as of his form.
[Illustration: ~The Giant Boy.~]