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Title: Side Show Studies

Author: Francis Metcalfe

Illustrator: Oliver Herford

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Language: English

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SIDE SHOW
STUDIES

BY
FRANCIS METCALFE

_ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY AMUSING DRAWINGS
BY OLIVER HERFORD_

NEW YORK
THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
1906

Copyright, 1905 and 1906, by
THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

First impression, March, 1906

THE OUTING PRESS
DEPOSIT, N. Y.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE LIBERTY OF FRANZ AND THE REBELLION OF FUZZY WUZZY 1

THE BITE OF A RATTLER AND THE SAD FATE OF BIG PETE 23

THE AMOROUS BABOON 45

FEEDING THE SERPENTS AND A GRAND TRANSFORMATION 67

THE LIONESS SKIRT DANCE AND THE INCONSIDERATE PYTHON 89

THE ANIMAL BAROMETER AND THE ETERNAL FEMININE 113

MAKING A STAR LION AND AN INTERRUPTED TEMPERANCE MEETING 137

KALSOMINING AN ELEPHANT 163

THE HYPNOTIC BEAR AND THE SENTIMENTAL LECTURER 183

THE TRAGEDY OF THE TIGERS AND THE POWER OF HYPNOTISM 211

THE LIBERTY OF FRANZ AND THE REBELLION OF FUZZY WUZZY

THE LIBERTY OF FRANZ AND THE REBELLION OF FUZZY WUZZY

Madame Morelli, the pretty little Frenchwoman who makes a half-score of
leopards, panthers and jaguars do things which nature never intended
them to do, had finished her act and driven the snarling performers
through the narrow runway to their separate cages, fastening each one,
as she thought, securely. Two French clowns were filli