Produced by David Starner, Dave Morgan, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Dialect and unusual spelling have been retained in this | | document. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this | | text. For a complete list, please see the end of this | | document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * +----------------------------------------------+ | 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 |