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CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| 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 |
