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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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