Explore "Struggles and Triumphs" by P.T. Barnum on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Popular Superstitions -- Unlucky Friday -- Unfortunate Saturday -- Rainy Sundays -- Terrible Thirteen -- The Brettells of London -- Incidents of My Western Trip -- Singular Fatality -- Number Thirteen in Every Hotel -- No Escape from the Frightful Figure -- Advice of a Clerical Friend -- The Thirteen Colonies -- The Thirteenth Chapter of Corinthians -- Thirteen at My Christmas Dinner Party -- Thirteen Dollars at a Fair -- Two Disastrous Days -- The Thirteenth Day in Two Months -- Thirteen Pages of Manuscript.
In the summer of 1868, a lady who happened to be at that time an inmate of my family, upon hearing me say that I supposed we must remove into our summer residence on Thursday, because our servants might not like to go on Friday, remarked: