, and exhibiting to the mother
race the wild side of the child's life. This plan entailed enormous
expense, but it was carried out successfully.

Still true to the state of his adoption, Will chartered the steamer
"State of Nebraska," and on March 31, 1886 a living freight from the
picturesque New World began its voyage to the Old.

At Gravesend, England, the first sight to meet the eyes of the watchers
on the steamer was a tug flying American colors. Three ringing cheers
saluted the beautiful emblem, and the band on the tug responded with
"The Star-Spangled Banner." Not to be outdone, the cowboy band on
the "State of Nebraska" struck up "Yankee Doodle." The tug had been
chartered by a company of Englishmen for the purpose of welcoming the
novel American combination to British soil.

When the landing was made, the members of the Wild West company entered
special coaches and were whirled toward London. Then even the stolidity
of the Indians was not proof against sights so little resembling those
to which they had been accustomed, and they showed their pleasure and
appreciation by frequent repetition of the red man's characteristic
grunt.

Major John M. Burke had made the needed arrangements for housing the big
show, and preparations on a gigantic scale were rapidly pushed to please
an impatient London public. More effort was made to produce spectacular
effects in the London amphitheater than is possible where a merely
temporary staging is erected for one day's exhibition. The arena was a
third of a mile in circumference, and provided accommodation for
forty thousand spectators. Here, as at Manchester, where another great
amphitheater was erected in the fall, to serve as winter quarters, the
artist's brush was called on to furnish illusions.

The English exhibited an eager interest in every feature of the
exhibition--the Indian war-dances, the bucking broncho, speedily
subjected by the valorous cowboy, and the stagecoach attacked by Indians
and rescued by United States troops. The Indian village on the plains
was also an object of dramatic interest to the English public. The
artist had counterfeited the plains successfully.

It is the hour of dawn. Scattered about the plains are various wild
animals. Within their tents the Indians are sleeping. Sunrise, and a
friendly Indian tribe comes to visit the wakening warriors. A friendly
dance is executed, at the close of which a courier rushes in to announce
the approach o