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Title Sawdust and Spangles Author William Cameron Coup Year 1901 Publisher H. S. Stone & Co. Address Chicago Source djvu Progress Done—All pages of the work proper are validated Pages   (key to Page Status) - - - - - - title -  v  vi  vii  viii  ix  x  xi  xii  xiii  xiv  xv - 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 image - 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 image - 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 image - 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 image - 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 image - 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 - image 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 image - 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 image - 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 image - 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 - - - -

CONTENTS Foreword ix CHAP. PAGE I. Boyhood with the Old-time Wagon Show 1 My First Exciting Experience 4 The Intelligence of Elephants 5 Fights with the Grangers 6 “Doc” Baird and the Bully 9 Teasing Old Romeo 10 The Story of a Stolen Negro 12 Horse Thieves in the Circus 15 II. The Perilous Business of Stocking a Menagerie 18 Beasts at Wholesale 20 The Professional Animal Hunter 21 Striking into the Interior 22 Hunters’ Life in the Jungle 23 Why Baby Elephants are Hard to Capture 26 Across the Desert with Captive Beasts 29 The Adventures of Specimen Hunters 31 III. Freaks and Fakes 35 The Burial and Resurrection of the “Cardiff Giant” 37 The Rival White Elephants 40 How the "Light of Asia" Embarrassed the Lecturer 41 The Wild Cave-Dweller of Kentucky 44 The Two-Headed Girl's Three-Headed Rival 46 Missing Links and Dancing Turkeys 49 The Salaries Paid to Freaks 50 The Love-Making and Merrymaking of the Freaks 51 The Exposure of the “Aztec Children” 54 An Adventure with a Circus Shark 56 IV. Moving the Big Show 59 The First Attempt to Move a Circus by Rail 61 The Spartan Habits of the Old Timers 63 Seven Heartbreaking Days on the Long Road 64 Performing by Day and Traveling by Night 67 On a Runaway Circus Train 69 Panic Among the Animals 71 A Single Track and a Broken Rail 73 The Bronchos’ Charmed Life 75 Old Romeo to the Rescue 77 An Unexpected Midnight Bath 79 V. The Prairie Fire 86 A Chance Meeting with a Great Man 96 VI. Booming the Big Show 104 Novel Advertising Features 105 The “Devil’s Whistle” 106 “Spotters” 108 Rivalry in Exploiting Opposition Shows 112 Costly Rivalry 113 Idle Bill-Posters 116 The Courtesy of Editors 118 Jumbo’s Free Advertising 120 VII. Parades and Band Wagons 124 The Fifty Cent Rivals of the Ten Thousand Dollar Hippos 124 A Skillful Appeal to Public Sympathy 126 A Silent Parade from Albany to the State Line 128 The Fluctuating Level of Circus Values 130 What it Costs to Ride with the Band Wagon 132 Requirements and Cost of the Circus Horse 134 A Page from the Invoice Book of the Big Show 136 VIII. Anecdotes of Men and Animals 139 Origin of the American Circus 139 The First Elephant Brought to America 141 The First Drove of Camels 144 The Fight of the Ostriches 145 The Belligerent Alligators 149 Parrots and Cockatoos 153 Educated Dogs 154 A Wounded Horse in the Grand March 156 Intelligent Bronchos 158 The King of the Herd 159 An Elephant’s Humor 160 Zulus in London 162 IX. Training Animals and Performers 169 The Perils of a Trainer’s Life 170 Where Steady Nerves are in Demand 172 Captured Animals Preferred to Cage-Born 173 The Education of a Young Jaguar 174 The Leopards at Kindergarten 177 How they Punish Unruly Pupils 179 Punishment of Treacherous Beasts 180 A Single-Handed Fight with Five Lions 182 Teaching the Horse the Two-Step 186 Ring Performers Trained with a Derrick 187 Circus People a Long-Lived Class 189 X. Mobs, Cyclones and Adventures 192 Forcible Argument with a City Marshal 193 Breaking Camp under a Hot Rifle Fire 195 Ambushed and Shot at on the Road 197 The Studies of the Apprentice to the Clown 201 Devotional Services Upset by a Demon 204 The Wild Beasts Loose in the Big Crowd 205 The Midnight Stampede of the Elephants 208 A Polar Bear Hunt on Fifth Avenue 209 An Equine Officer of Artillery 211 XI. Stories of Old-Time Shows and Showmen 214 Dan Rice’s One-Horse Show 215 Tan-Bark Oratory and Harlequin Pluck 217 An Imitation Patriot Shown Up 219 In which Cupid was Master of the Ring 223 Barnum’s One Unconquerable Superstition 227 Gullible Patrons in Early Days 229 Expedients of Advance Agents 231 Plantation Shows 234 Exhibiting “Yankees” in the South 235 Sleeping in Strange Attitudes 236 A Circus “Crier” 238 Showmen’s Names 239 The Escape of a Leopard 241 Hotel Keepers 243 Early Breakfasts 245 XII. How the Great New York Aquarium was Made and Lost 247 The Quest of the Tree-Tailed Kingio 249 Half-Hours with Bashful Whales 251 A Slippery Deal in Sea-Lions 254 An Eventful Monday Morning at the Aquarium 258 The Ultimate Fate of the Aquarium 260