The “_Greatest of all Wonders!--Giantess and Two Dwarfs.--Only a
Penny!_” They were painted on the show-cloths quite as little, and quite
as large, as life. The dwarfs inside were dwarfish, and the “Somerset
girl, taller than any man in England,” (for so said the show-cloth,)
arose from a chair, wherein she was seated, to the height of six feet
nine inches and three quarters, with, “ladies and gentlemen, your most
obedient.” She was good looking and affable, and obliged the “ladies and
gentlemen” by taking off her tight fitting slipper and handing it round.
It was of such dimension, that the largest man present could have put
his booted foot into it. She said that her name was Elizabeth Stock, and
that she was only sixteen years old.