Explore "Struggles and Triumphs" by P.T. Barnum on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
"Every Man to His Vocation" and "Nature Will Assert Herself" -- Rest by the Wayside -- A Half-Shaved Party -- Consternation of a Clergyman -- Natives in New York -- Doctoring a Corn-Doctor -- Religious Railways -- The Brighton Bugle Business -- Cash and Conscience -- Castles in the Air -- A Deluded Antiquarian -- Gambling and Politics -- Irish Wit -- About Conductors -- Dr. Chapin as a Punster -- Fowl Attempts -- A Pair O' Ducks -- Cutting a Sick Friend -- Rev. Richard Varick Dey -- His Crime and Its Consequences -- Foreordination -- Practical Joking by My Father -- A Valuable Racehorse -- How He Was Let and Then Killed -- Agony of the Horse-Killer -- The Final "Sell" -- Foreign and Domestic French -- Cockneyism -- Wicked Words in Exeter Hall.
And now as a traveller, when almost home, sits down by the wayside to rest, and meanwhile discourses to his companion about minor matters relating to the journey, or revives reminiscenses of home and foreign lands, so I stop to sum up in this chapter some of the incidents and anecdotes which seem pertinent to my story.