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  +----------------------------------------------+ | David Lannarck, Midget | | _An Adventure Story_ | | by GEORGE S. HARNEY | | | | | | _David was small, but Oh my!_ | | | | 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. | | | | 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. | | | | 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_. | | | | 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." | | | | Mr. Harney is a native Hoosier, a | | resident of Crawfordsville, Indiana. | +----------------------------------------------+

  David Lannarck, Midget

  _AN ADVENTURE STORY_

  by GEORGE S. HARNEY

  EXPOSITION PRESS . NEW YORK

  Copyright, 1951, by George S. Harney

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  _It is very true, that the small things in life are sometimes the most important._ --CHURCHILL

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