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P.T. Barnum. The Life of P.T. Barnum
THE LIFE OF P. T. BARNUM. Written by Himself
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History of William Collins
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I. My Early History
CHAPTER II. Clerk in a Store – Anecdotes
CHAPTER III. Sunday School – Old Meeting-House
CHAPTER IV. Anecdotes with an Episode
CHAPTER V. A Batch of Incidents
CHAPTER VI. Incidents and Various Schemes
CHAPTER VII. Struggling – Joice Heth – Vivalla
CHAPTER VIII. The Travelling Circus
CHAPTER IX. The American Museum
CHAPTER X. European Tour – Tom Thumb
CHAPTER XI. The Jenny Lind Enterprise
CHAPTER XII “Side Shows” – Buffalo Hunt, Etc
CHAPTER XIII. Temperance and Agriculture
CHAPTER XIV. Sundry Business Enterprises
Footnotes. Introductory
Chapter IV. Anecdotes with an Episode
Chapter VI. Incidents and Various Schemes
Chapter VIII. The Travelling Circus
Chapter IX. The American Museum
Chapter X. European Tour – Tom Thumb
Chapter XI. The Jenny Lind Enterprise
Chapter XIII. Temperance and Agriculture
Chapter XIV. Sundry Business Enterprises
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
About the Publisher
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Loud laughter, which the court declared was quite unbecoming the halls of justice, was here indulged by the spectators.
As the act was confessed, no evidence was adduced on the part of the State. Numerous witnesses testified regarding the great drouth, the difficulty in procuring bread from the lack of water to propel the mills, and stated the great necessity of the case. The defendant said not a word, but a verdict of not guilty was soon returned. The community generally was delighted, and the ideas that had heretofore existed in that vicinity, that a cat should be punished for catching a mouse on Sunday, or that a barrel of cider should be whipped for “working” on the first day of the week, became obsolete; compelling men to go to “meeting” went out of fashion; in fact, a healthy reaction took place, and from that time the inhabitants of Connecticut became a voluntary Sabbath-observing people, abstaining from servile labor and vain recreation on that day, but not deeming it a sin to lift a suffering ox from the pit if he happened to be cast therein after sunset on Saturday, or before sundown on Sunday.
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