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P. T. Barnum:Struggles and Triumphs, Additional Excerpt 265

P. T. Barnum《Struggles and Triumphs》· Struggles and Triumphs · Leadership

I found in Mr. John Hall Wilton, an Englishman who had visited this country with the Sax-Horn Players, the best man whom I knew for that purpose. A few minutes sufficed to make the arrangement with him, by which I was to pay but little more than his expenses if he failed in his mission, but by which also he was to be paid a large sum if he succeeded in bringing Jenny Lind to our shores, on any terms within a liberal schedule which I set forth to him in writing.

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