| Cagemates | Frontispiece |
| PAGE |
| 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 |
