ILLUSTRATIONS
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Cagemates Frontispiece
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In the steel arena 6
A tiger being trained to ride horseback 6
Feed a hippopotamus and he’ll do the rest 38
Bon, the baby hippo, for whom a man gave his life 38
Indigestion makes a lion vicious in the arena 58
Never try to do this if the lion has a headache 58
Baby wild cats, and they look their part 64
Representative circus dogs 72
Baby lions are always sought after as pets 82
A pair of real “teddy bears” 82
A sick baby orang-outang 98
A baby camel with its mother, the “dumbbell baby” of the menagerie 98
Baby Miracle, a few weeks before she decided to leave this tempestuous world 102
Lion triplets 102
Collies make excellent circus dogs 114
Waiting to enter the big show 114
Young lions in the training den 154
Waiting for mealtime 154
An inbred lion, hence not a good worker 160
Circus men can’t beat these things, so they “jine ’em” 160
An elephant is the easiest to train and the hardest to handle of any menagerie beast 178
A work elephant waiting for the crowds to leave the circus grounds, when his labors will begin 178
Spring practice in the yard of winter quarters 192
The elephant turns naturally to clowning 192
In winter quarters 216
In the act of a breakaway 216
Old Mom and her girl friend Freida 222
Kas and Mo when they arrived in America 222