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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

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