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to avoid detection, the papoose was found. He held at the time a little knife four inches long in his hand, as if to avenge the death of his parents. He was taken to headquarters and the genial Major Burke in the largeness of his heart took the little fellow under his wing and has to this day been his protector, his parent and his friend.
Space will not allow a detailed account of the most successful and popular American show ever produced. It is always, rain or shine, as Major Burke says, worth all the money charged at the entrance gates. New attractions have recently been added to the entertainment, notably the Cossack riders, headed by Prince Ivan Makharadze. These people stand in the same relative position to Europe and Russia that the western cowboys and cattle men bear to the more