The document describes the childhood and careers of the Ringling Brothers. It details how the seven brothers - Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles, John, and Henry - worked in their father's harness shop as children. As teenagers, they started a small circus in their barn with animals like kittens, dogs, cats, and a bullfrog. Eventually, the brothers started the Ringling Brothers Circus, which by 1890 featured over 30 animal cages and 107 horses and ponies, becoming a world famous circus. There is now a museum dedicated to the Ringling Brothers in Baraboo, Wisconsin.