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Title Proofreading Sandbox
Author WikiSource
Year 2011
Source djvu
Progress To be proofread
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Indices for Dictionary of National Biography

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i 1 2 3 4 CONTENTS. 6 INTRODUCTION 8 9 10 11 12 Chapter I. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Chapter II. 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Chapter III. 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 Chapter IV. 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 Chapter V. 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 Chapter VI. 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 Chapter VII. 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 Chapter VIII. 158 Chapter IX. 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 Chapter X. 174 175 176 177 178 Table of Cases 180 181 182 Bibliography

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
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