Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum — Read

Crossing the Frontier -- Professor Pinte -- Qualifications of a Good Showman -- "Soft Sup" -- Generous Distribution of Medals -- Prince Charles Stratton -- At Brussels -- Presentation to King Leopold and His Queen -- The General's Jewels Stolen -- The Thief Caught -- Recovery of the Property -- The Field of Waterloo -- Miraculously Multiplied Relics -- Captain Tippitiwitchet of the Connecticut Fusileers -- An Accident -- Getting Back to Brussels in a Cart -- Stratton Swindled -- Losing an Exhibition -- Two Hours in the Rain on the Road -- The Custom of the Country -- A Strict Constructionist -- Stratton's Head Shaved -- "Brummagem" Relics -- How They Are Planted at Waterloo -- What Lyons Sausages Are Made Of -- from Brussels to London.

In crossing the border from France into Belgium, Professor Pinte, our interpreter and General Tom Thumb's preceptor, discovered that he had left his passport behind him -- at Lille, at Marseilles, or elsewhere in France, he could not tell where, for it was a long time since he had been called upon to present it. I was much annoyed and indignantly told him that he "would never make a good showman, because a good showman never forgot anything. " I could see that my allusion to him as a "showman" was by no means pleasant, which leads me to recount the circumstances under which I was first brought in contact with the Professor.