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injuries would prove fatal. The mustang was secured, 

 however, and taken by me into the opera-house, where 

 a large audience had assembled. I stated to the as- 

 semblage that, on account of the accident, I would 

 postpone the lecture for one night; the money and 

 tickets were returned. The next evening the injured 

 man had so far recovered as to be able to be carried 

 to a box in the opera-house, where his long-cherished 

 wish to see the animal subdued and controlled and 

 ridden was gratified. Mr. McCafferty is well known 

 in connection with Dr. Carver, of Wild West fame. 



GREAT SUCCESS ON LONG ISLAND. 



On the isth of June, 1881, under the management 

 of W. C. Coup, I commenced giving exhibitions in 

 Brooklyn, at the corner of Fifth and Flatbush avenues, 

 to thousands of people. Having succeeded so well, 

 and my business requiring so much laborious work, I 

 was foolish enough to believe I could do just as well 

 in another way and much easier; but I soon found, to 

 my sorrow, that I was not up to the show business and 

 to showmen's tricks; consequently, I was soon left 

 without a cent in the world. Nothing daunted, how- 

 ever, I started again on the road, making my head- 

 quarters with Mr. John O'Donnell, editor and pro- 

 prietor of the Jamaica Standard, and during my sojourn 

 on Long Island my ill-luck seemed to have left me 

 completely. I flatter myself, with good reason, that 

 no one in my business ever before met with such com- 

 plete and continued success for so long a time in one 

 locality. Longing for new fields to conquer, I adopted 

 Horace Greeley's advice and went West, determined 

 hereafter to stick to the profession of which I was 

 master, and through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and 

 Wisconsin, as far as Colorado, my success exceeded 



