More on "Tusko" #2

SAVE2896, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Now with the Al G. Barnes Circus in 1922, we see "Ned" (Tusko), leading the daily street parade and being ridden by Cheerful Gardner's assistant Clyde "Highpockets" Baudendistl. Already becoming more massive due to an improved diet and being transported from town to town but with too much time on his hands he would become more difficult. My dad was on the Barnes Show at this time and said that "Tusko" did a single number in an end ring worked by Highpockets and it wasn't much but just laying down and sitting up was an impressive act in itself.