Athletes 284

THE WILD-BEAST TAMER
I We Visit a Queer Resort for Circus People and Talk
with a Trainer of Elephants 293
II Methods of Lion-tamers and the Story of Brutus's
Attack on Mr. Bostock 304
III Bonavita Describes His Fight with Seven Lions and
George Arstingstall Tells How He Conquered a Mad
Elephant 317
IV We See Mr. Bostock Matched Against a Wild Lion and
Hear About the Tiger Rajah 328
V We Spend a Night Among Wild Beasts and See the
Dangerous Lion Black Prince 339

THE DYNAMITE WORKER
I The Story of Some Millionaire Heroes and the World's
Greatest Powder Explosion 348
II We Visit a Dynamite-factory and Meet a Man Who Thinks
Courage is an Accident 358
III How Joshua Plumstead Stuck to His Nitro-Glycerin-Vat
in an Explosion and Saved the Works 367

THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER
I How it Feels to Ride at Night on a Locomotive Going
Ninety Miles an Hour 377
II We Pick Up Some Engine Lore and Hear About the Death
of Giddings 388
III Some Memories of the Great Record-breaking Run from
Chicago to Buffalo 395
IV We Hear Some Thrilling Stories at a Round-house and
Reach the End of the Book 406

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

About one half the chapters in this book appeared
serially in "St. Nicholas Magazine," the other
half in the "New York Herald," and two chapters on
the Locomotive Engineer, and one on the Wild-Beast
Tamer appeared in "McClure's Magazine." Thanks are
extended to all these for permission to republish.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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DIVERS AT WORK NEAR A WRECK _Frontispiece_

"I HAD TO CRAWL AROUND AND OVER IT" 5

AT THE TOP OF ST. PAUL'S, NEW YORK 10

"THEN MY PARTNER