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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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