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P. T. Barnum:Struggles and Triumphs, Additional Excerpt 442

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

And among my many friends in Liverpool and London, but one death had occurred, and with only two exceptions they all lived in the same buildings, and pursued the same vocations as when I left them in 1847. When I reached London, I found one of these exceptions to be Mr. Albert Smith, who, when I first knew him, was a dentist, a literary hack, a contributor to _Punch_, and a writer for the magazines,--and who was now transformed to a first-class showman in the full tide of success, in my own old exhibition quarters in Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

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