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P. T. Barnum. Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE
CHAPTER II. INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES
CHAPTER III. IN BUSINESS FOR MYSELF
CHAPTER IV. STRUGGLES FOR A LIVELIHOOD
CHAPTER V. MY START AS A SHOWMAN
CHAPTER VI. MY FIRST TRAVELLING COMPANY
CHAPTER VII. AT THE FOOT OF THE LADDER
CHAPTER VIII. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM
CHAPTER IX. THE ROAD TO RICHES
CHAPTER X. ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SPECULATION
CHAPTER XI. GENERAL TOM THUMB IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XII. IN FRANCE
CHAPTER XIII. IN BELGIUM
CHAPTER XIV. IN ENGLAND AGAIN
CHAPTER XV. RETURN TO AMERICA
CHAPTER XVI. AT HOME
CHAPTER XVII. THE JENNY LIND ENTERPRISE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE NIGHTINGALE IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER XIX. SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER XX. INCIDENTS OF THE TOUR
CHAPTER XXI. JENNY LIND
CHAPTER XXII. CLOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XXIII. OTHER ENTERPRISES
CHAPTER XXIV. WORK AND PLAY
CHAPTER XXV. THE JEROME CLOCK COMPANY ENTANGLEMENT
CHAPTER XXVI. CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE
CHAPTER XXVII. REST, BUT NOT RUST
CHAPTER XXVIII. ABROAD AGAIN
CHAPTER XXIX. IN GERMANY
CHAPTER XXX. IN HOLLAND
CHAPTER XXXI. THE ART OF MONEY GETTING
CHAPTER XXXII. AN ENTERPRISING ENGLISHMAN
CHAPTER XXXIII. RICHARD’S HIMSELF AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXIV. MENAGERIE AND MUSEUM MEMORANDA
CHAPTER XXXV. EAST BRIDGEPORT
CHAPTER XXXVI. MORE ABOUT THE MUSEUM
CHAPTER XXXVII. MR. AND MRS. GENERAL TOM THUMB
CHAPTER XXXVIII. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM IN RUINS
CHAPTER XL. MY WAR ON THE RAILROADS
CHAPTER XLI. BENNETT AND THE HERALD
CHAPTER XLII. PUBLIC LECTURING
CHAPTER XLIII. THE NEW MUSEUM
CHAPTER XLIV. CURIOUS COINCIDENCES.—NUMBER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER XLV. A STORY-CHAPTER
CHAPTER XLVI. SEA-SIDE PARK
CHAPTER XLVII. WALDEMERE
APPENDIX. REST ONLY FOUND IN ACTION
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX II
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P. T. Barnum
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“You lie, you young dog, and you know it; but never mind, I’ll pay you off some day”; and taking his furs, he departed with less ill-humor than could have been expected under the circumstances.
Among our customers were three or four old Revolutionary pensioners, who traded out the amounts of their pensions before they were due, leaving their papers as security. One of these pensioners was old Bevans, commonly known as “Uncle Bibbins,” a man who loved his glass and was very prone to relate romantic Revolutionary anecdotes and adventures, in which he, of course, was conspicuous. At one time he was in our debt, and though we held his pension papers, it would be three months before the money could be drawn. It was desirable to get him away for that length of time, and we hinted to him that it would be pleasant to make a visit to Guilford, where he had relations, but he would not go. Finally, I hit upon a plan which “moved” him.
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