The Ocean Liner by Marius Gabriel

Author:Marius Gabriel [Gabriel, Marius]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781477805145
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

Young Teddy Kennedy was fascinated by the little people. They were called Hoffman’s Midget Marvels. There were eight of them, and they were holding court in the Observation Lounge, seated in a group on a banquette so they could be photographed. They were all dressed fashionably, four miniature ladies and four miniature gentlemen, and their miniature suitcases had been arranged around them for extra effect. None of them were any bigger than Teddy himself, and he was only seven. The smallest was so tiny that their manager, Mr Harry Hoffman (in a jacket with very wide shoulders and smiling very widely) was bouncing him on his knee. Although he was tiny, you could see that he was really quite old, older than the manager, with a face like a wizened apple, and he looked cross at being bounced, which made everyone laugh even more.

Teddy took a photo with his Brownie while the midget men all lifted their hats and the midget ladies all crossed their legs. Some of the ladies were very pretty. Their manager explained that they were en route to the World’s Fair in New York, where they would live in Little Miracle City, a whole midget town, with midget houses fitted with midget furniture and kitchens.

‘Come visit them there, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. You can walk around their tiny town, and see them living their lives, just like real people. Tell all your friends.’

Teddy wanted to get closer and take a photo of the prettiest of the midget ladies, but his mother stopped him and said she didn’t think the whole thing was very nice at all. He was reluctant to be pulled away. He asked his mother if they could go to the World’s Fair and see the midgets there, and she said that they could certainly go to the World’s Fair, but there were much more interesting things to be seen than human beings put on show like performing monkeys. She said it was on a par with tattooed ladies and sword swallowers. Teddy wanted to see a tattooed lady, and looked around carefully, but there weren’t any to be seen.

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