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SAWDUST & SPANGLES


STORIES & SECRETS OF THE CIRCUS


BY
W. C. COUP


Herbert S. Stone and Company
Eldridge Court, Chicago
MDCCCCI

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY
HERBERT S. STONE & CO




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 <DW64>                                    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" Emb