Chapter I: Front Matter

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| David Lannarck, Midget |
| _An Adventure Story_ |
| by GEORGE S. HARNEY |
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| _David was small, but Oh my!_ |
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| Circus life was exciting enough, but |
| young David Lannarck was tired of being |
| stared at and bullied because of his |
| small size. So when a tall Westerner |
| saved his life in Cheyenne, and David |
| and he became friends, why, the circus |
| midget decided to make his home in the |
| wide open space. |
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| With big, rangy Sam Welborn, David |
| started out to become a rancher and live |
| out his days in peace and quiet. But |
| excitement seemed to follow the circus |
| midget wherever he went. The big man and |
| the little one ran into gunman, thieves |
| and rustlers, and where big Sam's |
| strength was not enough, David's wit had |
| to get them out alive. |
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| Circus life and Western adventure are a |
| highly unusual as well as a delightful |
| combination, but the author George S. |
| Harney has a first-hand authentic |
| knowledge of both. As a young man in |
| Indiana, he was a personal friend of Lew |
| Graham, the circus announcer for the Big |
| Show, Barnam & Bailey's Circus. Lew |
| Graham, handsomely dressed, told the big |
| audience what came next on the program. |
| During the long winter lay-ups, they |
| would swap yarns in the unique circus |
| lingo, which Harney has recorded in |
| _David Lannarck, Midget_. |
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| Later, Mr. Harney served in the |
| Spanish-American War. After the war, |
| "Cap" Harney became active in the |
| development of southern Idaho, and |
| although he sold his holdings there |
| 1945, he confesses that he is still |
| "haunted by the wild isolation of that |
| district west of Cheyenne." |
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| Mr. Harney is a native Hoosier, a |
| resident of Crawfordsville, Indiana. |
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David Lannarck,
Midget

_AN ADVENTURE STORY_

by GEORGE S. HARNEY

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Copyright, 1951, by George S. Harney

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