Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum — Read

Three Meals and Lodging in One Hour -- Turning the Tables on Turner -- A Son as Old as His Father -- Leaving the Circus with Twelve Hundred Dollars -- My First Travelling Company -- Preaching to the People -- Appearing as a Negro Minstrel -- Threatened with Assassination -- Escapes from Danger -- Temperance -- Report of My Arrest for Murder -- Reenforcing My Company -- "Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater" -- Outwitting a Sheriff -- "Lady Hayes's" Mansion and Plantation -- A Brilliant Audience -- Bass Drum Solo -- Crossing the Indian Nation -- Joe Pentland as a Savage -- Terror and Flight of Vivalla -- A Nonplussed Legerdemain Performer -- A Male Egg-Layer -- Disbanding My Company -- A New Partnership -- Public Lecturing -- Difficulty with a Drover -- The Steamboat "Ceres" -- Sudden Marriage on Board -- Mobbed in Louisiana -- Arrival at New Orleans.

An amusing incident occurred when we were at Hanover Court House, in Virginia. It rained so heavily that we could not perform there and Turner decided to start for Richmond immediately after dinner, when he was informed by the landlord that as our agent had engaged three meals and lodging for the whole company, the entire bill must be paid whether we went then, or next morning. No compromise could be effected with the stubborn landlord and so Turner proceeded to get the worth of his money as follows: