VIII. Sword-swallowers: Cliquot, Delno Fritz, Deodota, a
razor-swallower, an umbrella-swallower, William
Dempster, John Cumming, Edith Clifford, Victorina

IX. Stone-eaters: A Silesian in Prague, 1006; Francois
Battalia, ca. 1641; Platerus' beggar boy; Father
Paulian's lithophagus of Avignon, 1760; ``The
Only One in the World,'' London, 1788; Spaniards
in London, 1790; a secret for two and six; Japanese
training.--Frog-swallowers: Norton; English
Jack; Bosco; the snake-eater; Billington's
prescription for hangmen; Captain Veitro.--Water
spouters; Blaise Manfrede, ca. 1650; Floram
Marchand, 1650

X. Defiers of poisonous reptiles: Thardo; Mrs. Learn,
dealer in rattle-snakes.--Sir Arthur Thurlow
Cunynghame on antidotes for snake-bite.--Jack
the Viper.--William Oliver, 1735.--The advice of
Cornelius Heinrich Agrippa, (1480-1535).--An
Australian snake story.--Antidotes for various
poisons

XI. Strongmen of the eighteenth century: Thomas Topham
(died, 1749); Joyce, 1703; Van Eskeberg,
1718; Barsabas and his sister; The Italian Female
Sampson, 1724; The ``little woman from Geneva,''
1751; Belzoni, 1778-1823