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Struggles and Triumphs

P. T. Barnum

Form
Form Autobiography
Year
Year 1869
Pages
Pages 450

The Feejee Mermaid was a monkey's torso stitched to a fish tail, and Barnum says so on the page, delighted, having watched New York queue to see it. The trick is not that he confesses; it is that he expects you to like him more for it.

I was thus a real estate owner almost at my very birth
Struggles and Triumphs, P. T. Barnum

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