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Careers of Danger and Daring

by Cleveland MOFFETT (1863 - 1926)

The Wild Beast Tamer Pt 4 We See Mr. Bostock Matched Against a Wild Lion and Hear About the Tiger Rajah

In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr. Moffett has chosen unusual and picturesque careers, and has offered dramatic scenes from the lives of the steeple climber, the diver, the balloonist,the pilot, the bridge builder, the fireman, the aerial acrobat, the wild animal trainer, the dynamite worker and lastly the locomotive driver. (Summary by annise)And it has great pictures - ever wondered what the top of a steeple really looked like? Some listeners may find the "Wild Animal Tamer" stories distressing - I did. I would suggest you just don't download that section - the rest is well worth listening to.

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Listen next episodes of Careers of Danger and Daring:
The Dynamite Worker Pt 1 The Story of Some Millionaire Heroes and the World's Greatest Powder Explosion , The Dynamite Worker Pt 2 We Visit a Dynamite-factory and Meet a Man Who Thinks Courage is an Accident , The Dynamite Worker Pt 3 How Joshua Plumstead Stuck to His Nitro-Glycerin-Vat in an Explosion and Saved the Works , The Locomotive Engineer Pt 1 How it Feels to Ride at Night on a Locomote Going Ninety Miles an Hour , The Locomotive Engineer Pt 2 We Pick Up Some Engine Lore and Hear About the Death of Giddings , The Locomotive Engineer Pt 3 Some Memories of the Great Record-breaking Run from Chicago to Buffalo , The Locomotive Engineer Pt 4 We Hear Some Thrilling Stories at a Round-house and Reach the End of the Book , The Wild Beast Tamer Pt 5 We Spend a Night Among Wild Beasts and See the Dangerous Lion Black Prince